Unit 5: Grammar - Practice Quiz

1 Which sentence is in the present continuous tense?

2 Choose the correct verb form: "They ___ the project yesterday."

3 Choose the correct verb form: "While I ___ home, it started to rain."

4 Choose the correct verb form: "The film had started before we ___ at the cinema."

5 What type of sentence is "Please close the window"?

6 Which sentence is interrogative?

7 Choose the correct expression: "There are ___ apples in the basket."

8 Choose the correct word: "How ___ water do you drink each day?"

9 Choose the correct modal: "You ___ wear a seat belt while driving."

10 Which modal verb expresses ability in the present?

11 Choose the correct relative pronoun: "The woman ___ lives next door is a doctor."

12 Choose the correct relative word: "This is the café ___ we first met."

13 Choose the correct word: "The lecture was very ___."

14 Choose the correct word: "The students were ___ by the news."

15 Choose the correct expression: "I ___ play football every weekend when I was younger."

16 Choose the correct form: "She is used to ___ early for work."

17 Choose the best form: "The roads are wet. It ___ last night."

18 Choose the best form: "Perhaps Maya forgot the appointment. She ___ it in her calendar."

19 Choose the correct form: "If it rains tomorrow, we ___ at home."

20 Choose the correct article: "She bought ___ umbrella because it was raining."

21 Choose the sentence that correctly describes an action that began in the past and is still continuing.

22 By the time the committee meets next Friday, the researchers ___ the final report.

23 When I reached the station, the train ___, so I had to wait for the next one.

24 While the guests ___ in the garden, the lights suddenly went out.

25 Which sentence is a compound sentence?

26 Identify the complex sentence.

27 Only ___ information in the report was relevant to our investigation.

28 We invited twenty applicants, but ___ of them had the required experience.

29 Employees ___ wear identification badges while they are inside the laboratory.

30 The meeting was cancelled, so we ___ travel to the regional office after all.

31 The consultant ___ advice helped us solve the problem will return tomorrow.

32 Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.

33 The audience remained completely ___ by the speaker's account of the expedition.

34 Choose the sentence in which the opening participle phrase logically modifies the subject.

35 After working the night shift for six months, Carlos ___ sleeping during the day.

36 Lena arrived two hours late. She ___ the earlier train, but we do not know for certain.

37 If the technicians ___ the warning earlier, they would have prevented the shutdown.

38 You can borrow my camera ___ you return it before Friday.

39 During our trip, we visited ___ university where my mother had studied engineering.

40 There are two proposals, but ___ proposal fully addresses the budget issue.

41 By next September, Professor Malik __ at the university for exactly twenty-five years, although he will not retire until December.

42 Which sentence correctly presents a future event as viewed from a past reference point?

43 When the rescuers finally reached the cabin, the fire __, but smoke __ from the roof for several hours.

44 Choose the sentence with the most appropriate narrative tense sequence.

45 Classify the following sentence by clause structure: "Although the evidence was incomplete, the jury reached a verdict, and the judge dismissed the case."

46 Only __ information in the reports was independently verified, and __ of the witnesses were willing to testify publicly.

47 Which sentence uses the quantity expression correctly?

48 Employees __ disclose their passwords under any circumstances, but they __ change them immediately if a breach is suspected.

49 Which sentence means that attending the briefing was unnecessary, but the person attended anyway?

50 The laboratory, __ funding was unexpectedly withdrawn, had to suspend the project.

51 Choose the sentence in which the relative clause is grammatically correct and appropriately punctuated.

52 __ by the discrepancy in the accounts, the auditor requested documents __ the original transactions.

53 Which sentence avoids a dangling participle?

54 After several months on the night shift, Lena __ sleeping during the day, although she __ wake at every small noise.

55 The archive door was still locked, and only Mira knew the access code. She __ the documents without unlocking the door first.

56 The streets are wet, but the sky has been clear all night. The maintenance crew __ them earlier.

57 If the technicians __ the warning signs during last month's inspection, the system __ offline now.

58 Which sentence correctly uses inversion to replace an if-clause?

59 After graduating from __ university, Salma joined __ European research institute specializing in climate policy.

60 Choose the sentence in which the determiners are used correctly.