TKT Module 1: Grammar Practice test 2

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  1. In "He seems very unhappy today", the word 'seem' is
    1.   a modal auxiliary verb
    2.   a copular verb
    3.   a lexical or main verb
  2. The -ed ending to show the past tense in English is a verbal
    1.   derivation
    2.   inflexion
    3.   addition
  3. In "That house is too small", the word 'that' is
    1.   a demonstrative pronoun
    2.   a demonstrative determiner
    3.   a quantitative determiner
  4. The head of the prepositional phrase "opposite the car park" is
    1.   car
    2.   park
    3.   opposite
  5. In "I enjoyed the play enormously", the word 'enormously' is
    1.   a predicative adjective
    2.   an adverb of manner
    3.   an adverb of degree
  6. In "Don't open that!", the word 'do' is
    1.   a lexical or main verb
    2.   a modal auxiliary verb of prohibition
    3.   a primary auxiliary verb
  7. In "She came home late as she'd missed the bus" the word 'as' is
    1.   a coordinating conjunction
    2.   a correlating conjunction
    3.   a subordinating conjunction
  8. In "Please don't smoke inside" the word 'inside' is
    1.   an adverb of place
    2.   a determiner
    3.   a preposition of place
  9. In "He has reluctantly joined the army", the verb phrase (including adverbs) is
    1.   joined
    2.   reluctantly joined
    3.   has reluctantly joined
  10. The two main types of words in English are:
    1.   function and content words
    2.   grammar and structure words
    3.   content and lexical words
  11. In "She became angry" we have
    1.   a copular verb and an attributive adjective
    2.   a copular verb and a predicative adjective
    3.   a main verb and a predicative adjective
  12. In the expression "Two sugars, please", the noun 'sugar' is
    1.   a count noun
    2.   a proper noun
    3.   a mass noun
  13. In "That is a small house", the adjective is
    1.   attributive
    2.   dynamic
    3.   predicative
  14. In "Nobody came to the party", the word 'Nobody' is
    1.   a determiner
    2.   a pronoun
    3.   a demonstrative
  15. In "I looked but couldn't find it" the word 'but' is
    1.   a subordinating conjunction
    2.   a coordinating conjunction
    3.   a correlating conjunction