In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'angry' is ...
- ... a noun
- ... an adjective
- ... an adverb
- ... a verb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'very' is ...
- ... a verb
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a noun
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'became' is ...
- ... a modal verb
- ... an auxiliary verb
- ... a lexical or main verb
- ... a copular verb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the phrase 'very angry indeed' is ...
- ... a verb phrase
- ... a noun phrase
- ... an adjective phrase
- ... an adverb phrase
We say 'delicious citrus fruit' not 'citrus delicious fruit' because ...
- ... the noun is 'citrus fruit'
- ... the word 'citrus' classifies the word 'fruit'
- ... we can't say 'more' or 'most citrus'
- ... we can't say 'more' or 'most delicious'
Adding '-er' and '-est to make comparative and superlative forms of adjectives is called ...
- ... declination
- ... prefixation
- ... inflexion
- ... periphrasis
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'came' is ...
- ... a finite verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... an infinitive
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'make' is ...
- ... an auxiliary verb
- ... a finite verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a non-finite verb
In the clause "She has arrived at last", the word 'has' is ...
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... a primary auxiliary verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a modal auxiliary verb
We can't say "She arrived the hotel" because ...
- ... 'the hotel' can never act as an object
- ... the verb always takes an object
- ... the verb never takes an object
- ... the verb is non-finite
We can't say "She made" because ...
- ... the verb never takes an object
- ... the verb always takes an object
- ... the verb is used to link the noun to an adjective
- ... the verb is non-finite
In the two clauses, "The bird flew away" and "She flew the plane", the verb ...
- ... always takes an object
- ... cannot be transitive
- ... changes its meaning depending on whether it has an object
- ... is different in each case
In the clause, "He walked off his hangover" the verb phrase is ...
- ... walked
- ... he walked
- ... he walked off
- ... walked off
In the clause, "He walked over the bridge" the verb phrase is ...
- ... he walked
- ... he walked over
- ... walked
- ... walked over
We can't say, "He doesn't must do it" but we can say "He didn't need to do it" because ...
- ... the first clause is in the present tense and the second is in the past
- ... 'need to' is not an auxiliary verb
- ... 'must' is a central or pure modal auxiliary verb and 'need to' is a semi-modal auxiliary verb
- ... 'must' is a semi-modal auxiliary verb and 'need to' is a pure modal auxiliary verb
In the clause, "He could play the piano well as a child", the word 'could' refers to ...
- ... possibility
- ... permission
- ... obligation
- ... ability
In the clause, "I will cook if you like", the word 'will' refers to ...
- ... permission
- ... futurity
- ... ability
- ... willingness
In the clause, "I was smoking a cigarette", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... present perfect
- ... past progressive
- ... past simple
- ... past perfect
In the clause, "I had been waiting for hours", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... past perfect progressive
- ... past progressive
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past perfect
In the clause, "She'll have been driving all night", the verb tense is ...
- ... future perfect
- ... future progressive
- ... future perfect progressive
- ... future simple
The sentence, "She hasn't read it but it's on her holiday list" can be described as ...
- ... a complex-compound sentence
- ... a compound sentence
- ... a complex sentence
- ... a simple sentence
The sentence, "Will you be quiet, please?" functions as ...
- ... a negative
- ... a question
- ... a positive
- ... an imperative
The tense of the verb in "He had been thinking of her" is ...
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past perfect simple
- ... past progressive
- ... past perfect progressive
The normal word order for positive sentences in English is ...
- ... Object - Verb - Subject
- ... Subject - Object - Verb
- ... Subject - Verb - Object
- ... Verb - Subject - Object
The placement of the word 'concerned' in "the people concerned" is unusual because ...
- ... it should be 'the people are concerned'
- ... it should be 'the concerned people'
- ... adjectives in English normally come before the noun
- ... the word 'concerned' can't be used as an adjective
In the sentence, "Having opened the door, he went in", the word 'having' is ...
- ... a past participle
- ... a present participle
- ... a gerund
- ... a present progressive
The word 'because' in "She came because I asked" is ...
- ... a correlating conjunction
- ... a defining conjunction
- ... a subordinating conjunction
- ... a coordinating conjunction
In the sentence, "I'll come when I can", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a conjunction
- ... a pronoun
- ... an adverb
In the sentence, "When did they arrive?", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a pronoun
- ... a conjunction
In the sentence, "I have been here since ten o'clock", the word 'since' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... a conjunction
- ... a preposition
- ... a noun
In the expression, "take those tickets", the word 'those' is ...
- ... a pronoun
- ... an adjective
- ... an adverb
- ... a demonstrative determiner
In the clause, "He is being stupid" the verb is used ...
- ... with an object
- ... statively
- ... as an auxiliary
- ... dynamically
"I am seeing the doctor tomorrow" refers to ...
- ... a present arrangement
- ... a future prediction
- ... a future based on present evidence
- ... a current activity
In the sentence, "He was cycling when he saw the accident", the first verb refers to ...
- ... an action which was habitual
- ... an action that definitely stopped immediately
- ... an action which began before the accident
- ... an action that definitely continued after the accident
In the phrase, "the class in Room 16", the word 'class' is ...
- ... a collective noun
- ... a mass noun
- ... a proper noun
- ... an uncountable noun
"I don't have many furniture" is not possible because ...
- ... 'furniture' is countable
- ... we can't use 'many' in negative sentences
- ... 'many' cannot be used in the plural
- ... 'furniture' is a mass noun
There is no article (a, an or the) in "Alligators are aggressive" because ...
- ... we are referring to specific alligators
- ... we are referring to a collective noun
- ... we are referring to all alligators everywhere
- ... 'alligator' is a countable noun
In the clause, "She waited outside", the word 'outside' is ...
- ... a preposition
- ... a pronoun
- ... a noun
- ... an adverb
The word 'wonderfully' in, "It appeared wonderfully clever" is ...
- ... modifying the word 'clever'
- ... modifying 'it'
- ... modifying the verb 'appeared'
- ... an adjective
"I frequently can see it" is wrong because ...
- ... adverbs of indefinite frequency cannot come before the auxiliary verb
- ... adverbs always follow verbs
- ... no adverbs can come before auxiliary verbs
- ... adverbs of indefinite frequency always come before the main verb
The difference between "If he came, I'd talk to him" and "If he comes, I'll talk to him" is that ...
- ... the first is impossible and the second is possible
- ... the second is less likely than the first
- ... the second refers to the present and the first refers to the past
- ... the first is less likely than the second
"He spoke too quickly" contains ...
- ... an adjective following an adverb
- ... two adverbs
- ... an adverb following an adjective
- ... two adjectives
In the sentence, "I don't like this car as much as that", the word 'that' is ...
- ... a verb
- ... a demonstrative
- ... a noun
- ... a pronoun
In the clause, "Anybody can come", the word 'anybody' is ...
- ... a pronoun
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a noun
The term "tree surgeon" is an example of ...
- ... adjective + verb compounding
- ... verb + noun compounding
- ... adjective + noun compounding
- ... noun + noun compounding
In "I did it myself", the word 'myself' is ...
- ... an object pronoun
- ... a possessive determiner
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... a reflexive pronoun
In "He sold me them", the word 'me' is ...
- ... the subject
- ... the direct object
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... the indirect object
In "He sold me them", the word 'them' is ...
- ... the indirect object
- ... a subject pronoun
- ... the direct object
- ... a possessive pronoun
In the clause "It's expensive enough", the word 'enough' is ...
- ... a determiner
- ... an adjective
- ... an adverb
- ... a preposition
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In "Why not tell him?", the word 'tell' is ...
- ... a to-infinitive
- ... a finite verb
- ... an infinitive
- ... the object of 'Why'