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English grammar covers how words, phrases and clauses combine to form correct sentences. It includes tenses, parts of speech, prepositions, articles, voice, reported speech, agreement, infinitives, gerunds, adverb position, transitions, punctuation, sentence structure and inversion, with special attention to distinctions such as phrases versus clauses and active versus passive voice.
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- A. have seen
- B. seen
- C. had seen
- D. saw
Explanation: “Yesterday” identifies a completed action at a definite time in the past, which takes the simple past “saw.” The present perfect cannot…
Correct answer: saw- A. find
- B. finded
- C. found
- D. founded
- E. none
Explanation: The present perfect “have already” takes the past participle, and the past participle of “find” is the irregular form “found,” not…
Correct answer: found- A. has been walking
- B. had walked
- C. walked
- D. had been walking
Explanation: The sentence describes a repeated habit in a finished period of the past, so the simple past “walked” is appropriate.
Correct answer: walked- A. have purchased
- B. would purchase
- C. have purchase
- D. will purchase
Explanation: This is a first conditional: the if-clause uses the present simple, have, and the result clause uses will plus the base verb, will…
Correct answer: will purchase- A. am going to
- B. will go
- C. am going
- D. go
Explanation: Am going to is the future-plan form here, and it produces “I am going to New Zealand next year.” The other options do not correctly supply…
Correct answer: am going to- A. walk
- B. walks
- C. walked
- D. was walking
Explanation: Was watching describes an action already in progress, while walked describes the shorter event that occurred during it.
Correct answer: walked- A. Go
- B. Went
- C. Going
- D. Been
Explanation: After have or has, the past participle been is required in the present perfect: I have never been to England.
Correct answer: Been- A. Is leaving
- B. Leaving
- C. Does leave
- D. Leaves
Explanation: “Look!” points to an action happening at the moment of speaking, so the present continuous “is leaving” is needed.
Correct answer: Is leaving- A. Not watched
- B. Watch
- C. Watched
- D. Watching
Explanation: After the past auxiliary “did,” the main verb takes its base form: “did not watch.” “Watched” cannot follow “did” in standard English.
Correct answer: Watch- A. dead
- B. was died
- C. has died
- D. died
- E. had died
Explanation: The definite past-time marker yesterday requires the simple past tense, died.
Correct answer: died- A. go
- B. went
- C. gone
- D. going
Explanation: After the auxiliary did, the main verb must be in its base form: “did not go.” Went and gone cannot follow did, and going would require a…
Correct answer: go- A. don't
- B. didn't
- C. won't
- D. haven't
- E. hadn't
Explanation: Won’t is the contraction of will not and correctly expresses a refusal or decision about future behaviour: “I won’t lie from now on.”…
Correct answer: won't- A. Have
- B. Had
- C. Will
- D. Did
- E. Do
Explanation: Did is the past-tense auxiliary used to form a question about a completed action yesterday: “Did you call?” The main verb remains in its…
Correct answer: Did- A. has
- B. have
- C. have had
- D. had
Explanation: This is the second conditional: the unreal or hypothetical condition takes the past form had, followed by would purchase in the result…
Correct answer: had- A. would
- B. will
- C. had
- D. have
Explanation: After wish, would expresses a desired or hoped-for future action: “I wish Sana would come soon.” Will is normally avoided after wish in…
Correct answer: would- A. will intend
- B. intend
- C. would intend
- D. intending
Explanation: In a first conditional sentence, the if-clause takes the simple present, even when it refers to the future: “if you intend to catch.”…
Correct answer: intend- A. going to
- B. goes to
- C. usually go to
- D. are sometimes go to
Explanation: The plural subject “they” takes the base verb “go,” and “usually” correctly expresses a repeated habit.
Correct answer: usually go to- A. has come
- B. comes
- C. have come
- D. had come
Explanation: The past perfect “had come” places his coming before the later past moment when the speaker did not know.
Correct answer: had come- A. would
- B. will
- C. shall
- D. both A & B
Explanation: After the past verb “knew,” the future verb normally shifts from “will” to “would”: “I knew he would fail.” This is sequence of tenses in…
Correct answer: would- A. His health will soon be recovered
- B. He will not recover
- C. Will he able to recover
- D. He will not suffer
Explanation: “Unless” introduces a condition, so the consequence takes “will”: without quitting smoking, “he will not recover.” The other choices are…
Correct answer: He will not recover