Items 1-5: Choose the correct verb form to
fill in the gap in each.
1. If they had been there, they _____ you.
(A) will help
(B) would have helped
(C) would help
(D) had helped
2. I can't remember his _____ a single day
off work.
(A) take
(B) took
(C) taking
(D) taken
3. The accident occurred when the
passengers _____.
(A) sleep
(B) had slept
(C) had been sleeping
(D) were sleeping
4. When I ____ her last, she was living
with her aunt.
(A) saw
(B) was seeing
(C) had seen
(D) see
5. If you heat water, you ____ steam.
(A) will get
(B) get
(C) are getting
(D) would get
Items 6-8: Choose the correct preposition.
6. This is the book that I have been
looking ____.
(A) for
(B) into
(C) by
(D) on
7. He was endowed ____ some rare faculties.
(A) by
(B) with
(C) in
(D) at
8. Man does not live ____ bread alone.
(A) with
(B) in
(C) on
(D) by
Items 9 - 11: Identify the wrong pair in
each set:
9. (A) lion - den
(B) dog - kennel
(C) horse - stable
(D) sheep - house
10.(A) king - regicide
(B) mother - matricide
(C) sister - infanticide
(D) father - patricide
11.(A) dogs -- quack
(B) bees - hum
(C) swallows — twitter
(D) frogs - croak
Items 12 - 14: Use the correct question tag
for each.
12.Don't be late for dinner, ____
(A) won't you?
(B) will you?
(C) do you?
(D) don't you?
13.None of us knew the answer, ____
(A) isn't it?
(B) didn't we?
(C) did we?
(D) are we?
14. I believe you are just eighteen years
old, ___
(A) aren't you?
(B) are you?
(C) don't I?
(D) do you?
Answers
1) Ans. (B)would have helped
2) Ans. (C)taking
3) Ans. (D)were sleeping
4) Ans. (A)saw
5) Ans. (B)get
6) Ans. (A)for
7) Ans. (B)with
8) Ans. (D)by
9) Ans. (D)sheep - house
10) Ans. (C)sister - infanticide
11) Ans. (A)dogs -- quack
12) Ans. (B)will you?
13) Ans. (C)did we?
