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PRACTICAL GRAMMAR

MID-TERM TEST

This test has 45 questions. Write your answer on the answer sheet.

Question 1: Put the verbs in brackets into correct forms.

1. The term "Hudson River school" (1. apply) to the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century North American landscape painting. Apparently unknown during the golden days of the

American landscape movement, which (2. begin) around 1850 and (3. last).. until the

late 1860's, the Hudson River school seems to (4.emerge).. in the 1870's as a direct result of the

struggle between the old and the new generations of artists, each to assert its own style as the

representative American art.

2. Looking at this little lady, it is hard to believe she (5. spend).. 20 of her 76 years in jail. Her

crime has been pick-pocketing. Just a short while ago, she (6. catch). practicing her trade in

Harrods- a favourite hunting ground for the pickpocket as it is frequently by the well-off.

3. Television has altered the forms of political communication as well. The messages on which most of us

rely (7.be)..briefer than they once were. The stump speech, a political speech given by traveling

politicians and lasting 3/2 to 2 hours, which (8. characterize) nineteenth-century politicaldiscourse, (9. give).. way to the 30-second advertisement and the 10 second "sound bite" in

broadcast news. Increasingly the audience for

speeches is not that standing in front of the politician but rather the viewing audience who (10. hear)

. and (11. see).. a snippet of the speech on the news.

4. Under the Earth's topsoil, at various levels, sometimes under a layer of rock, there are deposits of clay.

Look at cuts where highways (12. build) to see exposed clay beds; or look at a construction site,

where pockets of clay may be exposed. Rivers also reveal clay along their banks, and erosion on a hillside

may make clay easily accessible.

5. Any rock that has cooled and solidified from a molten state is an igneous rock. Therefore, if the Earth

(13. begin).. as a superheated sphere in space, all the rocks making up its crust may well (14. be)

igneous and thus the ancestors of all other rocks. Even today, approximately 95 percent of the

entire crust (15. be).. igneous. Periodically, molten material (16. well) out of the Earth's

interior to invade the surface layers or to flow onto the surface itself. This material (17. cool)

into a wide variety of igneous rocks.

6. Researchers in the field of psychology (18. find) that one of the best ways to make an

important decision, such as choosing a university to attend or a business to invest in, involves the

utilization of a decision worksheet. Psychologists who (19. study) optimization (20. compare)

.. the actual decisions made by people to theoretical ideal decisions to see how similar they

are.

Question 2: Find and correct mistake in the following sentences if applicable. Sentence I and ii are

done as examples

i. Mary likes fruits very much.

.fruit.

ii. If the countries do go to war, many people will die needlessly.

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1. Johns being a shepherd in the school play next week.

2. When I called him, he would answer immediately.

3. Some plants had better not be grown in the direct sunlight. It will damage their leaves.

4. He like lakes of Russia.

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5. The president insisted that all the student wore uniform.

6. We used to visit Scotland four times during the 1970s.

7. Ive given your proposal some thoughts, but I dont think theyd be appropriate in our company.

8. Its necessary for the satellite to be in exactly the right position.

9.The USA is a country with the high level of immigration.

10. Sri Lanka has the wonderful climate.

Question 3: Answer the following questions

1. Explain the difference in the use of article a in the following sentences.

a. A child needs love

b. There is a child waiting outside?

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2. Explain the difference in the use of shall and will in the following sentences

a. He will do it, what ever you say

b. He shall do it, what ever you say?

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3. What is the difference between the following sentencesa. I will help her

b. I will be helping her

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4. What is the difference in the use of singular and plural form of room in the following sentences

a. Theres no room for you in here.

b. There are four rooms in my house.

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5. What is the difference in the use of verb tense in the following sentences

a. Weve had that washing machine for 6 years

b. We had that washing machine for 6 years.

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