In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'angry' is ...
- ... an adverb
- ... a verb
- ... a noun
- ... an adjective
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'very' is ...
- ... a noun
- ... a verb
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the word 'became' is ...
- ... a modal auxiliary verb
- ... a lexical verb
- ... an auxiliary verb
- ... a copular verb
In the clause: "She became very angry indeed", the phrase 'very angry indeed' is ...
- ... an adjective phrase
- ... a noun phrase
- ... an adverb phrase
- ... a verb phrase
We say 'delicious citrus fruit' not 'citrus delicious fruit' because ...
- ... the word 'citrus' classifies the word 'fruit'
- ... we can't say 'more' or 'most delicious'
- ... the noun is 'citrus fruit'
- ... we can't say 'more' or 'most citrus'
Adding '-er' and '-est to make comparative and superlative forms of adjectives is called ...
- ... periphrasis
- ... declination
- ... prefixation
- ... inflexion
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'came' is ...
- ... an infinitive
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a finite verb
In the clause "My mother came to help make the dinner", the word 'make' is ...
- ... a copular verb
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... an auxiliary verb
- ... a finite verb
In the clause "She has arrived at last", the word 'has' is ...
- ... a modal auxiliary verb
- ... a non-finite verb
- ... a copular verb
- ... a primary 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 is non-finite
- ... the verb never takes an object
We can't say "She made" because ...
- ... the verb is non-finite
- ... the verb always takes an object
- ... the verb is used to link the noun to an adjective
- ... the verb never takes an object
In the two clauses, "The bird flew away" and "She flew the plane", the verb ...
- ... changes its meaning depending on whether it has an object
- ... is different in each case
- ... cannot be transitive
- ... always takes an object
In the clause, "He walked off his hangover" the verb phrase is ...
- ... he walked
- ... walked
- ... walked off
- ... he walked off
In the clause, "He walked over the bridge" the verb phrase is ...
- ... he walked over
- ... walked over
- ... walked
- ... he walked
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
- ... 'must' is a semi-modal auxiliary and 'need to' is a pure modal auxiliary
- ... the first clause is in the present tense and the second is in the past
- ... 'need to' is not an auxiliary verb
In the clause, "He could play the piano well as a child", the word 'could' refers to ...
- ... possibility
- ... permission
- ... ability
- ... obligation
In the clause, "I will cook if you like", the word 'will' refers to ...
- ... permission
- ... ability
- ... willingness
- ... futurity
In the clause, "I was smoking a cigarette", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... past perfect
- ... past progressive
- ... present perfect
- ... past simple
In the clause, "I had been waiting for hours", the tense of the verb is ...
- ... past perfect
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past progressive
- ... past perfect progressive
The the clause, "She'll have been driving all night", the verb tense is ...
- ... future perfect
- ... future simple
- ... future perfect progressive
- ... future progressive
The sentence, "She hasn't read it but it's on her holiday list" can be described as ...
- ... a simple sentence
- ... a complex sentence
- ... a complex-compound sentence
- ... a compound sentence
The sentence, "Will you be quiet, please?" functions as ...
- ... a positive
- ... a negative
- ... an imperative
- ... a question
The tense of the verb in "He had been thinking of her" is ...
- ... present perfect progressive
- ... past progressive
- ... past perfect simple
- ... 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 ...
- ... the word 'concerned' can't be used as an adjective
- ... it should be 'the concerned people'
- ... adjectives in English normally come before the noun
- ... it should be 'the people are concerned'
In the sentence, "Having opened the door, he went in", the word 'having' is ...
- ... a present participle
- ... a present progressive
- ... a past participle
- ... a gerund
The word 'because' in "She came because I asked" is ...
- ... a coordinating conjunction
- ... a subordinating conjunction
- ... a correlating conjunction
- ... a defining conjunction
In the sentence, "I'll come when I can", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a pronoun
- ... an adverb
- ... a conjunction
In the sentence, "When did they arrive?", the word 'when' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a conjunction
- ... an adverb
- ... a pronoun
In the sentence, "I have been here since ten o'clock", the word 'since' is ...
- ... a noun
- ... an adverb
- ... a conjunction
- ... a preposition
In the expression, "take those tickets", the word 'those' is ...
- ... a pronoun
- ... a demonstrative
- ... an adverb
- ... an adjective
In the clause, "he is being stupid" the verb is used ...
- ... with an object
- ... statively
- ... dynamically
- ... as an auxiliary
"I am seeing the doctor tomorrow" refers to ...
- ... a present arrangement
- ... a current activity
- ... a future prediction
- ... a future based on present evidence
In the sentence, "He was cycling when he saw the accident", the first verb refers to ...
- ... an action that definitely stopped immediately
- ... an action which began before the accident
- ... an action which was habitual
- ... an action that definitely continued after the accident
In the phrase, "the class in Room 16", the word 'class' is ...
- ... an uncountable noun
- ... a mass noun
- ... a collective noun
- ... a proper noun
"I don't have many furniture" is not possible because ...
- ... we can't use 'many' in negative sentences
- ... 'furniture' is a mass noun
- ... 'many' cannot be used in the plural
- ... 'furniture' is countable
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 ...
- ... an adverb
- ... a preposition
- ... a noun
- ... a pronoun
The word 'wonderfully' in, "it appeared wonderfully clever" is ...
- ... modifying the verb 'appeared'
- ... modifying 'it'
- ... modifying the word 'clever'
- ... an adjective
"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 second is less likely than the first
- ... the first is impossible and the second is possible
- ... the first is less likely than the second
"He spoke too quickly" contains ...
- ... an adverb following an adjective
- ... two adverbs
- ... two adjectives
- ... 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 ...
- ... an adverb
- ... a pronoun
- ... a noun
- ... an adjective
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 reflexive pronoun
- ... a possessive determiner
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... an object pronoun
In "He sold me them", the word 'me' is ...
- ... the subject
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... the indirect object
- ... the direct object
In "He sold me them", the word 'them' is ...
- ... the indirect object
- ... a possessive pronoun
- ... a subject pronoun
- ... the direct object
In the clause "It's expensive enough", the word 'enough' is ...
- ... an adjective
- ... a determiner
- ... a preposition
- ... an adverb
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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