1 Important Note: These are sample questions only so that you have an idea what type of questions might come in the exam. You can use them to practice what you studied but remember that the actual exam questions will be different.
1. “Ali’s father gave him a gift.” Which of the following is an indirect object?
a. Ali
b. father
c. him
d. gift
2. Which of the following NPs is a nominal group?
a. a green car
b. they
c. Ahmed
d. we all
3. “Ahmed sold the old car to me.” The pre-modifier in the sentence is:
a. Ahmed
b. sold
c-old
d. car
4. Which of the following is true when we compare direct and indirect reported speech?
a. Indirect reported speech is quoting by using quotation marks.
b. Direct reported speech is rephrasing by using a subordinate that-clause.
c. Indirect reported speech is rephrasing by using a subordinate that-clause
d. Direct reported speech is rephrasing by using quotation marks.
5. Which of the following complex sentences has a relative clause?
a. The man who works in the factory is poor.
b. Everyone could see that he was happy.
c. The question is what happened here.
d. The man says that the road is closed.
6. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct?
a. The team is winning.
b. The team are winning.
c. Bread are cheap in this shop.
d. Bread is cheap in this shop.
7. “The man likes to watch his favorite program every week.” The underlined determiner is:
a. an article
b. a demonstrative
c. a quantifier
d. a possessive
8. Which of the following is a masculine third person singular pronoun?
a. he
b. it
c. we
d. you
9. Verbs that do NOT show tense, person and number are called
a. possessive
b. participle
c. non-finited.
finite
10. “Are they waiting here?” What is the operator in this sentence?
a. Are
b. they
c. waiting
d. here