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Name: _________________ Year & Section: __________ Date: ___________

GRAMMAR RULES
Directions: Read and analyze the question carefully. Shade the correct answer.
1. The first letter of the first word in a sentence should be 8. In British English, a collective noun is
usually treated as
o a large letter
o a capital letter o singular
o plural

2. The order of a basic positive sentence is


9. The terms "its" and "it's" have
o Subject-Verb-Object
o Verb-Object-Subject o the same meaning
o different meanings

3. Every sentence must have a subject and


10. Which is correct?
o a verb
o an object o You're looking good
o Your looking good

4. A plural subject needs


PARTS OF SPEECH
o a singular verb
o a plural verb 11. I bought a beautiful dress at the mall.

o Preposition
5. When two singular subjects are connected by or, use o Adjective
o Noun
o a singular verb
o a plural verb
12. What did she ask you to do?

o Conjunction
6. Adjectives usually come o Preposition
o before a noun o Pronoun
o after a noun
13. I left my shoes under the kitchen
table.
7. If an opinion-adjective and a fact-adjective are used before a
o Adjective
noun, which comes first?
o Preposition
o a fact-adjective o Pronoun
o an opinion-adjective
14. If we finish our work quickly we can go to the movies.

o Adverb
o Conjunction
o Verb

15. On Saturdays I work from nine to five.

o Verb
o Preposition
o Adverb

16. I want to go to a university in the United States.

o Adjective
o Preposition
o Noun

17. I'm sure I've met your girlfriend before.

o Verb
o Preposition
o Interjection

18. Well, I don't think I'll be home before 6.

o Interjection
o Preposition
o Pronoun

19. Andy knocked on the door but nobody answered.

o Adverb
o Adjective
o Conjunction

20. After lunch let's go out for a coffee.

o Pronoun
o Preposition
o Verb
Name: _________________ Year & Section: __________ Date: ___________
PHRASAL VERBS
Direction: Encircle the correct answer for each number.

1. Phrasal verbs consist of _______ plus one or two 7. Which is correct? "If the TV's too loud,
other words. _______ ."

a. a phrase a. turn down


b. an adverb b. turn down it
c. a verb c. turn it down

2. The other words can be 8. "Do you believe in ghosts?" The second
word in this phrasal verb is
a. adverbs or verbs
b. adverbs or prepositions a. a preposition
c. prepositions or verbs b. an adverb
c. a verb
3. "I'll go home and get changed before we go out for
dinner." Which is a phrasal verb? 9. Phrasal verbs with a preposition
always have a direct object that comes
a. go home directly _______ the preposition.
b. get changed
c. go out a. Before
b. Between
4. Intransitive phrasal verbs (come back, get up, go out, c. after
etc) consist of a verb + adverb that _______ be
separated. 10. Which sentence has a three-word
phrasal verb with the structure verb +
a. can adverb + preposition?
b. can never
c. can sometimes a. We're running out of milk.
b. The milk has run out.
5. "Turn the lights off before you go to bed." This phrasal c. I'll run out to get some
verb is
11. Would you _______ my dog for me
a. separable this weekend?
b. inseparable
c. unseparated a. Look
b. look after
6. "I'll drop all of the kids off at school." This phasal c. look up
verb's first word is "drop". Which is the second?
12. My neighbour _______ eggs
a. of yesterday.
b. off
c. at
a. ran 19. It will be easier to read if you
b. ran out of _______ the lights.
c. ran into
a. switch
13. John _______ his leg at the baseball game. b. switch on
c. switch over
a. broke
b. broke down 20. I have to _______ to the
c. broke off finish line and back.

14. Our boss _______ our meeting until next week. a. run away
b. run out of
a. put c. run
b. put off
c. put down

15. Could you _______ the music while I'm on the phone?

a. turn
b. turn off
c. turn around

16. I don't _______ my new science teacher.

a. get up
b. get over
c. get on with

17. We both _______ meeting your new girlfriend.

a. look
b. look up
c. look forward to

18. My car _______ on the highway today.

a. broke down
b. broke off
c. broke away
Name: _________________ Year & Section: __________ Date: ___________
BASIC TENSES / ENGLISH TENSE SYSTEM
Direction: Encircle the correct answer from the options below.

1. In English, the concept of tense 7. Which verb form always ends with -ing, as in
"talking"?
a. does not exist
b. is not important a. past participle
c. is very important b. present participle
c. base V2 form
2. There are _______ in the English language.
8. Which of the basic tense structures is
a. 3 basic tenses "auxiliary + subject + main verb"?
b. 12 basic tenses
c. 21 basic tenses a. Positive
b. Negative
3. A past simple verb such as "had" _______ refer c. Question
to past time.

a. must always 9. When learning the structure of tenses, we learn


b. does not always how to use regular verbs and irregular verbs,
c. can never including the highly irregular verb _______.

4. "I hope it snows next weekend." In this sentence, a. Learn


the present simple verb "snows" refers to b. Be
c. Have
a. the past
b. the present
c. the future 10. When learning the English tense system, it's
important to understand that "tense" and "time"
5. All 12 basic tenses can be used in either the active are
or _______ voice.
a. the same thing
a. Passive b. different things
b. Inactive c. opposite things
c. reactive

6. The structure of a basic tense depends on 12 BASIC ENGLISH TENSES


whether it's in the positive, negative or _______
form. Instructions: Enumerate at least 10 Basic English
Tenses with one example for each.
a. Future 11-20
b. Neutral
c. question
Name: _________________ Year & Section: __________ Date: ___________
GRAMMAR SPELLING
Directions: Fill in the blanks. Choose the right answer inside the close parenthesis.

1.English grammar is the way in which meanings are 9-10. Eight "word classes" or "parts of speech" are
encoded into wordings in the English language. This commonly distinguished in English: nouns,
includes the structure of words, ____________ (determainers, determiners,
phrases, ___________ (clawses, clauses, clauzes), determinars), pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
sentences, and whole texts. prepositions, and _____________ (conjunctions
conjunctians, conjunctiouns). Nouns form the
largest word class, and verbs the second-largest.
2-4 This article describes a generalized, present-day Unlike nouns in almost all other Indo-European
Standard English - a form of speech and writing used languages, English nouns do not have grammatical
in public discourse, including broadcasting, gender.
education, entertainment, government, and news,
over a range of registers, from formal to informal.
Divergences from the grammar described here occur GRAMMAR VOCABULARY/ GRAMMAR
in some historical, social, cultural and regional TERMS
___________ (varieaties, variaties , varieties) of
Directions: Write your answer on the space
English, although these are more minor than
provided. Letters only.
differences in ____________ (pronunciation
pronounciation, pronounceation) and _______11. Which sentence is in the active voice?
____________ (vocabulary, vocabulary,
vocabulry.) a. John wrote the song.
b. The song was written by John.

5-8. Modern English has largely abandoned the _______12. In the active voice, the action is done
inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of by
_____________ (analytic, analitic, analystic) a. the subject before the verb
constructions. The personal pronouns retain b. the object after the verb
____________ (morphological, morphological,
morphological) case more strongly than any other _______13. Adjectives are words that describe
word class. For other pronouns, and all nouns,
a. verbs or adverbs
adjectives, and _________ (articules, articales,
articles), grammatical function is indicated only by b. nouns or pronouns
word order, by prepositions, and by the Saxon
genitive or English __________ (possesive _______14. In which sentence is "fast" an
possessive possessive.) adjective?
a. He’s a fast runner.
b. He can run fast.
_______15. An adverb is a word that can modify
a. nouns
b. verbs
_______16. In which sentence is "fast" an adverb?
a. He’s got a fast car.
b. He drives fast.
_______17. Which of these articles is an indefinite article?
a. a
b. the
_______18. Which sentence contains a definite article?
a. We saw a movie.
b. The movie was great.
_______19. An auxiliary verb is used with
a. a proper noun
b. a main verb
______20. In the question "Did you win?", which is the auxiliary verb?
a. Did
b. win
Name: _________________ Year & Section: __________ Date: ___________
WHAT IS A SENTENCE?
Directions: Read and analyze carefully each question. You may put your answer on
the space provided. Letters only.

_______1. A sentence is a set of words with a _______9. Which is a full sentence?


subject and
A. Come here!
A. an object B. Just a moment.
B. a predicate
_______2. The subject of a sentence is
_______10. Which is not a full sentence?
A. what it's about
A. How many did you get right?
B. what it begins with
B. All of them!
_______3. The predicate is what's said about
A. the subject
PHRASES
B. the beginning
________11. Phrases are grammatical units that
_______4. "My dog likes to chase cats." The
consist of
predicate is
A. one or more words
A. likes to chase cats
B. more than one word
B. chase cats
________12. A noun phrase with more than one
_______5. The predicate of a sentence always
word can consist of a noun and words that
includes
A. replace the noun
A. a noun
B. qualify the noun
B. a verb
________13. "The tour includes three Asian
_______6. Imperative sentences like "Stop!" don’t
countries." Which is a noun phrase?
have to include
A. The tour includes
A. the verb
B. three Asian countries
B. the subject
________14. A verb phrase consists of a main verb
_______7. In the sentence "Wait a minute!", the
and its
predicate has
A. auxiliary verbs
A. two words
B. phrasal verbs
B. three words
_______8. A full sentence expresses
A. a complete thought
B. a correct thought
________15. "She has been studying all day." Which is a verb phrase?
A. studying all day
B. has been studying

________16. An adjective phrase can be a single adjective or a group of words built


around
A. an adjective
B. a single noun

________17. "Cats are playful pets, but dogs are very loyal as well." This sentence has
A. one adjective phrase
B. two adjective phrases

________18. Which sentence has an adverb phrase?


A. She sings very nicely.
B. She sings very nice songs.

________19. A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition and its


A. object
B. subject

________20. "We always play football after work." Which is a prepositional phrase?
A. always play football
B. after work
Key Answers:

GRAMMAR RULES PHRASAL VERBS

1. a capital letter 1. a verb

2. Subject-Verb-Object 2. adverbs or prepositions

3. a verb 3. go out

4. a plural verb 4. can never

5. a singular verb 5. separable

6. before a noun 6. off

7. an opinion-adjective 7. turn it down

8. plural 8. a preposition

9. different meanings 9. after

10. You're looking good 10. We're running out of milk


11. look after

PARTS OF SPEECH 12. ran out of

11. adjective 13. broke

12. pronoun 14. put off

13. preposition 15. turn off

14. adverb 16. get on with

15. verb 17. look forward to

16. noun 18. broke down

17. verb 19. switch on

18. interjection 20. run

19. conjunction
20. preposition
BASIC TENSE/ ENGLISH SYSTEM GRAMMAR SPELLING
1. is very important 1. clauses
2. 12 basic tenses 2. varieties
3. does not always 3. pronunciation
4. the future 4. vocabulary
5. passive 5. analytic
6. question 6. morphological
7. present participle 7. articles
8. question 8. possessive
9. be 9. determiners
10. different things 10. conjunctions

12 BASIC ENGLISH TENSES GRAMMAR VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR


TERMS
11-20
11. John wrote the song.
- Present Simple
12. the subject before the verb
- Present Continuous
13. nouns or pronouns
- Present Perfect
14. He’s a fast runner.
- Present Perfect Continuous
15. verbs
- Past Simple
16. He drives fast.
- Past Continuous
17. a
- Past Perfect
18. The movie was great.
- Past Perfect Continuous
19. a main verb
- Future Simple
20. Did
- Future Continuous
- Future Perfect
- Future Perfect Continuous
WHAT IS A SENTENCE?
1. a predicate
2. what it's about
3. the subject
4. likes to chase cats
5. a verb
6. the subject
7. three words
8. a complete thought
9. Come here!
10. All of them!

PHRASES
11. one or more words
12. qualify the noun
13. three Asian countries
14. auxiliary verbs
15. has been studying
16. an adjective
17. two adjective phrases
18. She sings very nicely.
19. object
20. after work

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