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