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  1. In this sentence: I'd like two slices of cake, please., the word cake is
    1.   a mass noun made countable with a partitive
    2.   a mass noun made countable with a quantifier
    3.   a simple mass noun
    4.   uncountable
  2. In this sentence: They'll have been driving all night., the tense is
    1.   future perfect progressive
    2.   future modal
    3.   future perfect simple
    4.   the future with -ing
  3. In this sentence: I think it's dead easy., the word dead is
    1.   an uptoner
    2.   an approximator
    3.   an intensifying adjective
    4.   an intensifying adverbial
    5.   an adverbial adjective
  4. In this sentence, I seldom enjoy his company., the word seldom is
    1.   an adverb of extent
    2.   an adverb of time
    3.   an adjective to describe 'enjoy his company'
    4.   an adverb of manner
  5. In this sentence, Technically, it's called a grommet., the word Technically is
    1.   an attitudinal adverb
    2.   a viewpoint adjunct
    3.   a viewpoint disjunct
    4.   a conjunction
  6. In this sentence, He looks exhausted., the word looks is
    1.   a mental process verb
    2.   a verb of appearance
    3.   a copular verb
    4.   a verb in the continuous aspect
  7. This sentence, The hotel was what she enjoyed most. is
    1.   a fronted subject
    2.   a compound sentence
    3.   a reversed wh-cleft
    4.   an it-cleft
  8. This sentence, Mary didn't believe him although he seemed very sure. is
    1.   a compound-complex sentence
    2.   a complex sentence
    3.   a simple sentence
    4.   a compound sentence
  9. In this sentence, Mary didn't believe him although he seemed very sure., the word although is
    1.   a coordinating conjunction
    2.   a minor linker
    3.   a subordinating conjuction
    4.   a correlative conjunction
  10. In this sentence, It was important that he be there., the word be is
    1.   a future form
    2.   a present form
    3.   in the subjunctive mood
    4.   an infinitive
  11. This phrase, the government's policy is an example of
    1.   an objective genitive
    2.   a descriptive genitive
    3.   an origin genitive
    4.   a possessive genitive
  12. In this sentence, She daren't phone her mother., the word dare is
    1.   a lexical or main verb
    2.   a semi-modal auxiliary verb
    3.   a pure modal auxiliary verb
    4.   an attitudinal verb
  13. In this sentence, She needs more time., the word need is
    1.   a lexical or main verb
    2.   a modal auxiliary verb
    3.   a demand verb
    4.   a semi-modal auxiliary verb
  14. Prepositions can be described as
    1.   a closed class of function words
    2.   a set of open-class grammatical words
    3.   words which join verbs
    4.   locative determiners
  15. In this sentence, I am loving this., the word loving is
    1.   a dynamic material process verb
    2.   an opinion verb used dynamically
    3.   a gerund
    4.   a stative perception verb
  16. This sentence, At the first meeting, which was held yesterday, the chair invited comments from everyone. contains
    1.   a defining relative clause
    2.   a reduced relative clause
    3.   a relative adverb, 'which'
    4.   a non-defining relative clause
  17. This sentence, She liked the car he arrived in. contains
    1.   a relative clause with omitted relative pronoun because it stands for the subject
    2.   a relative clause with omitted relative pronoun because it stands for the object
    3.   a non-defining relative clause with omitted relative pronoun
    4.   a reduced relative clause
  18. In this sentence, I thought long and hard about not telling you., the word telling is
    1.   a future form
    2.   a gerund
    3.   a participle
    4.   a finite verb
  19. In I gave it to him. we have
    1.   a genitive and an indirect object
    2.   two direct objects
    3.   three types of pronoun: nominative, accusative and dative
    4.   a tri-transitive verb
  20. In The old house with a thatched roof, the words old and thatched are, respectively
    1.   an adverb and an adjective
    2.   an adjective and a classifier
    3.   two epithets
    4.   two simple adjectives
  21. She spoke to the man behind the bar. is ambiguous because
    1.   we don't know where the man was
    2.   we don't have any context
    3.   the prepositional phrase can be acting as a noun post-modifier or an adverbial
    4.   the prepositional phrase can be acting as a noun pre-modifier or an adverbial
  22. We prefer to say: It's a shame that it's raining. instead of That it's raining is a shame because
    1.   we use tonic syllables
    2.   English conforms to end weighting
    3.   the second sentence is wrong
    4.   the focus is moving
  23. In the question: Do you know where John is living now?, the clause where John is living now is
    1.   a prepositional clause
    2.   a nominalised clause acting as the object of the verb
    3.   an adverbial clause
    4.   a reduced relative clause
  24. How many non-finite verb forms are there in English? What are they?
    1.   One: the infinitive
    2.   Three: gerund, participle and infinitive
    3.   Two: gerund and infinitive
    4.   Four: gerund, participle, infinitive and subjunctive
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    In the question: Will you do half this work?, the word half is
    1.   an adverbial determiner
    2.   a demonstrative determiner
    3.   a partitive determiner
    4.   a pre-determiner