Quite a lot of ESL/EFL learners make a mistake when choosing the right form of verbs or get confused with homophones in a sentence. We don’t need to be a grammar Nazi all the time, but you can’t make yourselves understood in English correctly without grammar.
Here’s a brief quiz to check your grammar ability. Choose the right word/ phrase to make each sentence grammatically correct.
1. Dennis
(was, has been) in California last winter.
2. The parents
freaked out about (there, they’re, their) kids’ safety when there was the
first confirmed case of CoVid-19 on campus.
3. Janet’s
dog likes to eat all vegetables (accept,
except) lettuce.
4. Bob
will write you a (cheque, check) for
the items you are buying.
5. My
friends and (me, I) are signing up for
the gym membership.
6. I
feel so sorry for those (affected,
effected) by this deadly virus.
7. She (could
have done, could do) better in his
exams if he had worked harder.
8. Darryl had (adviced, advised) the young ones
to stay at home in this time of pandemic.
9. The (principal, principle) aim of the game isn’t to win.
10. Pete has (hanged, hung) his favorite family picture on the
wall.
11. The Green Mile is Stephen King’s novel
about the prisoners who are on the death row. When I read the story, I thought it
was so inhumane to electrocute inmates or get them (hanged, hung).
Answer Keys
1. was
2. their
3. except
4. cheque
5. I
6. affected
7. could
have done
8. advised
9. principle
10. hung
11. hanged
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