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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. to clean
- B. cleaning
- C. cleaned
- D. clean
Explanation: After need, want and require, a gerund carries a passive meaning, so the room needs cleaning means it needs to be cleaned.
Correct answer: cleaning- A. Its raining and the dog has lost its collar.
- B. It's raining and the dog has lost it's collar.
- C. It's raining and the dog has lost its collar.
- D. Its' raining and the dog has lost its' collar.
Explanation: It's with an apostrophe is only ever the contraction of it is or it has, while its without one is the possessive.
Correct answer: It's raining and the dog has lost its collar.- A. have
- B. has
- C. are
- D. were
Explanation: The number takes a singular verb because it refers to a single figure, whereas a number of takes a plural verb because it means several.
Correct answer: has- A. He is one of the best players who has ever played.
- B. He is one of the best players who have ever played.
- C. He is one of the best player who have ever played.
- D. He is one of best players who has ever played.
Explanation: The relative pronoun who refers back to players, which is plural, so the verb is have.
Correct answer: He is one of the best players who have ever played.- A. nevertheless
- B. consequently
- C. although
- D. whereas
Explanation: The second clause states the result of the first, so a consequence connector such as consequently, therefore or as a result is needed.
Correct answer: consequently- A. noun clause
- B. adjective clause
- C. adverb clause of time
- D. independent clause
Explanation: When I reach home tells us when the calling will happen, so it modifies the verb and functions as an adverb clause of time.
Correct answer: adverb clause of time- A. My bicycle has stolen.
- B. My bicycle has been stolen.
- C. My bicycle was been stolen.
- D. My bicycle is stolen by someone.
Explanation: The present perfect active becomes has or have been plus the past participle in the passive, and the vague agent someone is normally…
Correct answer: My bicycle has been stolen.- A. am
- B. was
- C. were
- D. will be
Explanation: After I wish, an unreal present situation takes the subjunctive were for all persons, so I wish I were is correct in formal English.
Correct answer: were- A. conjunction
- B. preposition meaning except
- C. adverb
- D. verb
Explanation: Here but means except and governs the noun Ali, which makes it a preposition rather than the coordinating conjunction it usually is.
Correct answer: preposition meaning except- A. for
- B. of
- C. with
- D. on
Explanation: Accuse takes of, while charge takes with, so he was accused of negligence but charged with negligence.
Correct answer: of- A. with
- B. to
- C. of
- D. by
Explanation: Married takes to when naming the spouse, so she is married to a doctor. Married with is a common error carried over from other languages.
Correct answer: to- A. to
- B. with
- C. for
- D. at
Explanation: Consistent takes with when comparing one thing to another, and the same applies to compatible with and comply with.
Correct answer: with- A. a
- B. an
- C. the
- D. no article
Explanation: No article is used before a unique office or title that follows verbs such as appoint, elect or make, so he was appointed captain and she…
Correct answer: no article- A. A
- B. An
- C. The
- D. No article
Explanation: Unique objects such as the Sun, the Moon, the Earth and the sky take the definite article.
Correct answer: The- A. has
- B. had
- C. have
- D. did
Explanation: Hardly at the start of a sentence forces inversion, and the pattern hardly had plus past participle describes the earlier of two past…
Correct answer: had- A. they discovered
- B. did they discover
- C. they did discover
- D. discovered they
Explanation: When a restrictive expression such as only after, only then or not until opens the sentence, the subject and auxiliary invert as in a…
Correct answer: did they discover- A. is
- B. are
- C. have
- D. were
Explanation: A collective noun takes a singular verb when the group acts as one body, and the singular possessive its later in the sentence confirms…
Correct answer: is- A. are
- B. is
- C. were
- D. have been
Explanation: Subjects ending in ics such as mathematics, physics, economics and statistics are singular despite their plural appearance.
Correct answer: is- A. I
- B. me
- C. myself
- D. mine
Explanation: Between is a preposition, so the pronoun following it must be in the object form, giving between you and me.
Correct answer: me- A. I
- B. me
- C. myself
- D. mine
Explanation: The pronoun is the object of the preposition to, so the object form me is required.
Correct answer: me