The Grammar Test

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In this sentence: "I'd like two coffees, please.", the word coffees is
1. uncountable
2. an error - it should be 'two cups of coffee'
3. a mass noun made countable
4. a mass noun
In this sentence: "They'll have been driving all night.", the tense is
1. future modal
2. future perfect progressive
3. the future with -ing
4. future perfect simple
In this sentence: "I think it's dead easy.", the word dead is
1. an intensifying adjective
2. an intensifying adverbial
3. an adverbial adjective
4. an approximator
In this sentence, "I seldom enjoy his company.", the word seldom is
1. an adverb of extent
2. an adverb of time
3. an adjective to describe 'enjoy his company'
4. an adverb of manner
In this sentence, "Technically, it's called a grommet.", the word technically is
1. a viewpoint disjunct
2. a viewpoint adjunct
3. an attitudinal adverb
4. a conjunction
In this sentence, "He looks exhausted.", the word looks is
1. a copular verb
2. a mental process verb
3. a verb of appearance
4. a verb in the progressive aspect
This sentence, "The hotel was what she enjoyed most." is
1. a fronted subject
2. an it-cleft
3. a compound sentence
4. a reversed wh- cleft
This sentence, "Mary didn't believe him although he seemed very sure." is
1. a compound sentence
2. a simple sentence
3. a complex sentence
4. a compound-complex sentence
In this sentence, "Mary didn't believe him although he seemed very sure.", the word although is
1. a coordinating conjunction
2. a minor linker
3. a subordinating conjunction
4. a correlative conjunction
In this sentence, "It was important that he be there.", the word be is
1. future
2. subjunctive
3. the infinitive
4. present
This phrase, "the government's policy" is an example of
1. a descriptive genitive
2. a possessive genitive
3. an objective genitive
4. an origin genitive
In this sentence, "She daren't phone her mother.", the word dare is
1. an attitudinal verb
2. a pure modal
3. a lexical verb
4. a semi-modal
In this sentence, "She needs to phone her mother.", the word need is
1. a lexical verb
2. a modal
3. a semi-modal
4. a demand verb
Prepositions can be described as
1. words which say where, when, why and who
2. a set of open-class grammatical words
3. words which join verbs
4. a closed-system class of function words
In this sentence, "I am loving this.", the word love is
1. a perception verb used dynamically
2. a gerund
3. a dynamic process verb
4. a stative perception verb
This sentence, "At the first meeting, which was held yesterday, the chair invited comments from everyone." contains
1. a defining relative clause
2. a relative adverb, 'which'
3. a non-defining relative clause
4. a reduced relative clause
This sentence, "This is the car he arrived in." contains
1. a reduced relative clause
2. a relative clause with omitted relative pronoun because it stands for the subject
3. a relative clause with omitted relative pronoun because it stands for the object
4. a non-defining relative clause with omitted relative pronoun
In this sentence, "I thought long and hard about not telling you.", the word telling is
1. a future form
2. a participle
3. a finite verb
4. a gerund
In "I gave it to him." we have
1. a tri-transitive verb
2. three types of pronoun: nominative, accusative and dative
3. two direct objects
4. a genitive and an indirect object
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In "The old house with a thatched roof", the words old and thatched are, respectively
1. one gradable and one ungradable adjective
2. an adverb and an adjective
3. one epithet and one classifier
4. two simple adjectives

The Grammar Test

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