The pre-course guide test: language

Multiple choice test

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  1. Which of the following refers to a background fact which is always true?
    1.   Did she ask for your address?
    2.   Does he know your address?
    3.   Have you told her your address?
    4.   Will she know your address?
  2. Which of the following is an example of the present perfect tense?
    1.   Mary did the work
    2.   Mary has done the work
    3.   Mary'll do the work
    4.   Mary'd already done the work
  3. The consonant at the beginning of fish is the same as the one at the end of ...
    1.   dive
    2.   with
    3.   dish
    4.   graph
  4. What sort of verb is could in She couldn't see what was happening?
    1.   a past tense
    2.   a modal auxiliary
    3.   a main verb
    4.   the past of of can
  5. The word design rhymes with ...
    1.   lane
    2.   fine
    3.   cream
    4.   time
  6. If we start with the hypernym building, which of the following form a set of hyponyms?
    1.   car park, square, street, lane
    2.   live, reside, dwell, inhabit
    3.   home, cave, residence, tree house
    4.   house, church, office block, chalet
  7. The phrases by the guest house and beside the bed and breakfast place are
    1.   antonymous
    2.   synonymous
    3.   dialect differences
    4.   identical
  8. What is the object of the verb like in William and Jessica particularly liked the hotel by the beach?
    1.   William and Jessica
    2.   particularly
    3.   the beach
    4.   the hotel by the beach
  9. What grammatical function is the word fascinated performing in She appeared fascinated?
    1.   an adjective
    2.   an adverb
    3.   the subject of appear
    4.   the object of appear
  10. The phrase has been done in The work has been done already is best described as ...
    1.   a prepositional phrase
    2.   the subject phrase
    3.   a noun phrase
    4.   a verb phrase