In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'angry' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a verb
- ... a noun
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'very' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a verb
- ... a noun
- ... an adverb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'became' is ...
- ... an auxiliary verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a modal auxiliary verb
- ... a lexical verb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the phrase 'very angry indeed' is ...
- ... an adverb phrase
- ... a verb phrase
- ... an adjective phrase
- ... a noun 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 ...
- ... periphrasis
- ... prefixation
- ... inflexion
- ... declination
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'came' is ...
- ... a finite verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... an infinitive
- ... 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 primary auxiliary verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... a modal auxiliary verb
We can't say "She arrived the hotel" because ...
- ... 'the hotel' can never act as an object
- ... the verb never takes an object
- ... the verb always takes an object
- ... the verb is non-finite
We can't say "She made" because ...
- ... the verb always takes an object
- ... the verb never 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 ...
- ... 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 ...
- ... he walked off
- ... walked
- ... he walked
- ... walked off
In the clause, "He walked over the bridge" the verb phrase is ...
- ... walked
- ... he walked
- ... walked over
- ... he 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 central or pure modal auxiliary and 'need to' is a semi-modal auxiliary
- ... '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 and 'need to' is a pure modal auxiliary
In the clause, "He could play the piano well as a child", the word 'could' refers to ...
- ... obligation
- ... ability
- ... possibility
- ... permission
In the clause, "I will cook if you like", the word 'will' refers to ...
- ... ability
- ... willingness
- ... permission
- ... futurity
In the clause, "I was smoking a cigarette", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... past progressive
- ... present perfect
- ... past simple
- ... past perfect
In the clause, "I had been waiting for hours", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past perfect
- ... past progressive
- ... past perfect progressive
The the clause, "She'll have been driving all night", the verb tense is ...
- ... future progressive
- ... future simple
- ... future perfect progressive
- ... future perfect
The sentence, "She hasn't read it but it's on her holiday list" can be described as ...
- ... a complex sentence
- ... a complex-compound sentence
- ... a simple sentence
- ... a compound sentence
The sentence, "Will you be quiet, please?" functions as ...
- ... an imperative
- ... a positive
- ... a negative
- ... a question
The tense of the verb in "He had been thinking of her" is ...
- ... past perfect simple
- ... past progressive
- ... past perfect progressive
- ... present perfect progressive
The normal word order for positive sentences in English is ...
- ... Object - Verb - Subject
- ... Subject - Verb - Object
- ... Verb - Subject - Object
- ... Subject - Object - Verb
The placement of the word 'concerned' in "the people concerned" is unusual because ...
- ... it should be 'the people are concerned'
- ... adjectives in English normally come before the noun
- ... 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 participle
- ... a gerund
- ... a present progressive
- ... a past participle
The word 'because' in "She came because I asked" is ...
- ... a subordinating conjunction
- ... a defining conjunction
- ... a correlating conjunction
- ... a coordinating conjunction
In the sentence, "I'll come when I can", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
- ... a conjunction
- ... a pronoun
In the sentence, "When did they arrive?", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... an adverb
- ... a pronoun
- ... a conjunction
In the sentence, "I have been here since ten o'clock", the word 'since' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... a noun
- ... a conjunction
- ... a preposition
In the expression, "take those tickets", the word 'those' is ...
- ... a demonstrative
- ... an adverb
- ... a pronoun
- ... an adjective
In the clause, "he is being stupid" the verb is used ...
- ... statively
- ... with an object
- ... dynamically
- ... as an auxiliary
"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 that definitely continued after the accident
- ... an action which was habitual
- ... an action that definitely stopped immediately
- ... an action which began before the accident
In the phrase, "the class in Room 16", the word 'class' is ...
- ... a mass noun
- ... a collective noun
- ... an uncountable noun
- ... a proper noun
"I don't have many furniture" is not possible because ...
- ... 'many' cannot be used in the plural
- ... 'furniture' is a mass noun
- ... 'furniture' is countable
- ... 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 all alligators everywhere
- ... we are referring to a collective noun
- ... we are referring to specific alligators
- ... 'alligator' is a countable noun
In the clause, "she waited outside", the word 'outside' is ...
- ... a pronoun
- ... a noun
- ... an adverb
- ... a preposition
The word 'wonderfully' in, "it appeared wonderfully clever" is ...
- ... modifying 'it'
- ... an adjective
- ... modifying the word 'clever'
- ... modifying the verb 'appeared'
"I frequently can see it" is wrong because ...
- ... no adverbs can come before auxiliary verbs
- ... adverbs of indefinite frequency always come before the main verb
- ... adverbs always follow verbs
- ... adverbs of indefinite frequency cannot come before the auxiliary 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 first is less likely than the second
- ... the second is less likely than the first
- ... the first is impossible and the second is possible
"He spoke too quickly" contains ...
- ... two adjectives
- ... an adverb following an adjective
- ... 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 noun
- ... a pronoun
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 ...
- ... adjective + noun compounding
- ... adjective + verb compounding
- ... verb + noun compounding
- ... noun + noun compounding
In "I did it myself", the word 'myself' is ...
- ... an object pronoun
- ... a possessive determiner
- ... a reflexive pronoun
- ... a possessive pronoun
In "He sold me them", the word 'me' is ...
- ... the direct object
- ... the subject
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... the indirect object
In "He sold me them", the word 'them' is ...
- ... the direct object
- ... a subject pronoun
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... the indirect object
In the clause "It's expensive enough", the word 'enough' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... a preposition
- ... an adjective
- ... a determiner
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In "Why not tell him?", the word 'tell' is ...
- ... the object of 'Why'
- ... a to-infinitive
- ... a finite verb
- ... an infinitive