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 noun
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a verb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'became' is ...
- ... a modal verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a lexical or main verb
- ... an auxiliary verb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the phrase 'very angry indeed' is ...
- ... an adverb phrase
- ... a verb phrase
- ... a noun phrase
- ... an adjective phrase
We say 'delicious citrus fruit' not 'citrus delicious fruit' because ...
- ... we can't say 'more' or 'most delicious'
- ... the noun is 'citrus fruit'
- ... we can't say 'more' or 'most citrus'
- ... the word 'citrus' classifies the word 'fruit'
Adding '-er' and '-est to make comparative and superlative forms of adjectives is called ...
- ... prefixation
- ... declination
- ... periphrasis
- ... inflexion
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'came' is ...
- ... a copular verb
- ... an infinitive
- ... a finite verb
- ... a non-finite verb
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'make' is ...
- ... a finite verb
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... an auxiliary verb
In the clause "She has arrived at last", the word 'has' is ...
- ... a modal auxiliary verb
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... a primary auxiliary verb
- ... a copular verb
We can't say "She arrived the hotel" because ...
- ... the verb is non-finite
- ... the verb never takes an object
- ... 'the hotel' can never act as an object
- ... the verb always takes an object
We can't say "She made" because ...
- ... the verb is non-finite
- ... the verb never takes an object
- ... the verb always takes an object
- ... 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 ...
- ... cannot be transitive
- ... is different in each case
- ... 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
- ... walked off
- ... he walked
- ... he walked off
In the clause, "He walked over the bridge" the verb phrase is ...
- ... walked
- ... he walked over
- ... walked over
- ... he walked
We can't say, "He doesn't must do it" but we can say "He didn't need to do it" because ...
- ... 'need to' is not an auxiliary verb
- ... the first clause is in the present tense and the second is in the past
- ... 'must' is a semi-modal auxiliary verb and 'need to' is a pure modal auxiliary verb
- ... 'must' is a central or pure modal auxiliary verb and 'need to' is a semi-modal auxiliary verb
In the clause, "He could play the piano well as a child", the word 'could' refers to ...
- ... permission
- ... possibility
- ... ability
- ... obligation
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 ...
- ... past progressive
- ... past simple
- ... past perfect
- ... present perfect
In the clause, "I had been waiting for hours", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... past perfect progressive
- ... past perfect
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past progressive
In the clause, "She'll have been driving all night", the verb tense is ...
- ... future perfect progressive
- ... future simple
- ... future perfect
- ... future progressive
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 question
- ... a positive
- ... an imperative
- ... a negative
The tense of the verb in "He had been thinking of her" is ...
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past perfect simple
- ... past perfect progressive
- ... past progressive
The normal word order for positive sentences in English is ...
- ... Subject - Verb - Object
- ... Verb - Subject - Object
- ... Object - Verb - Subject
- ... 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'
- ... it should be 'the concerned people'
- ... 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 present progressive
- ... a gerund
- ... a past participle
- ... a present participle
The word 'because' in "She came because I asked" is ...
- ... a defining conjunction
- ... a correlating conjunction
- ... a coordinating conjunction
- ... a subordinating conjunction
In the sentence, "I'll come when I can", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a pronoun
- ... a conjunction
In the sentence, "When did they arrive?", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a pronoun
- ... a conjunction
- ... an adverb
In the sentence, "I have been here since ten o'clock", the word 'since' is ...
- ... a conjunction
- ... a preposition
- ... a noun
- ... an adverb
In the expression, "take those tickets", the word 'those' is ...
- ... a demonstrative determiner
- ... a pronoun
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
In the clause, "He is being stupid" the verb is used ...
- ... as an auxiliary
- ... with an object
- ... statively
- ... dynamically
"I am seeing the doctor tomorrow" refers to ...
- ... a present arrangement
- ... a current activity
- ... a future based on present evidence
- ... 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 which began before the accident
- ... an action that definitely stopped immediately
- ... an action which was habitual
In the phrase, "the class in Room 16", the word 'class' is ...
- ... a collective noun
- ... an uncountable noun
- ... a mass noun
- ... a proper noun
"I don't have many furniture" is not possible because ...
- ... 'many' cannot be used in the plural
- ... 'furniture' is countable
- ... '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 a collective noun
- ... we are referring to specific alligators
- ... we are referring to all alligators everywhere
- ... 'alligator' is a countable noun
In the clause, "She waited outside", the word 'outside' is ...
- ... a noun
- ... a pronoun
- ... a preposition
- ... an adverb
The word 'wonderfully' in, "It appeared wonderfully clever" is ...
- ... modifying the verb 'appeared'
- ... an adjective
- ... modifying the word 'clever'
- ... modifying 'it'
"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 second refers to the present and the first refers to the past
- ... the second is less likely than the first
- ... the first is less likely than the second
- ... the first is impossible and the second is possible
"He spoke too quickly" contains ...
- ... two adverbs
- ... an adjective following an adverb
- ... 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 demonstrative
- ... a verb
- ... a noun
- ... a pronoun
In the clause, "Anybody can come", the word 'anybody' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a pronoun
- ... a noun
- ... an adverb
The term "tree surgeon" is an example of ...
- ... noun + noun compounding
- ... adjective + verb compounding
- ... verb + noun compounding
- ... adjective + noun compounding
In "I did it myself", the word 'myself' is ...
- ... a possessive determiner
- ... an object pronoun
- ... a reflexive pronoun
- ... a possessive pronoun
In "He sold me them", the word 'me' is ...
- ... the subject
- ... the indirect object
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... the direct object
In "He sold me them", the word 'them' is ...
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... a subject pronoun
- ... the indirect object
- ... the direct object
In the clause "It's expensive enough", the word 'enough' is ...
- ... a preposition
- ... an adverb
- ... a determiner
- ... an adjective
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In "Why not tell him?", the word 'tell' is ...
- ... the object of 'Why'
- ... a finite verb
- ... an infinitive
- ... a to-infinitive