Grammar 1

Question 1: The sky was getting ______ and they still hadn't come home.

A. dark and more dark

B. darker and darker

C. darker and more

D. more and more dark

Question 2: I am entitled to lodge a complaint here, ______?

A. am I

B. aren't I

C. don't I

D. are I

Question 3: "What if we can't catch the thief?" – "Don't worry. He ______ before the guests come here."

A. is going to be caught

B. had been caught

C. will have been caught

D. will have caught

Question 4: Have you ever tried ______ or any other winter sports?

A. to ski

B. ski

C. skiing

D. to skiing

Question 5: He's taken some pills, ______ effect took a pretty long time to wear off.

A. which had

B. which

C. whose

D. when

Question 6: I'd rather you ______ come here with this neon shirt. You stick out like a sore thumb.

A. haven't had

B. didn't

C. don't

D. hadn't had

Question 7: Here, every kind of money is convertible ______ you don't bring counterfeit currency to

our store.

A. unless

B. provided that

C. otherwise

D. given how

Question 8: I think you ______ made light of her speech. You didn't even consider how much effort had

gone into that, did you?

A. ought to have

B. shouldn't have

C. must have

D. might have

Question 9: Success ______ to her head before she even knew that.

A. was going

B. had gone

C. went

D. would go

Question 10: Many a person ______ it hard to believe that processed food actually has additives.

A. founds

B. finds

C. find

D. found

Question 11: ______ had they gone outside ______ the sky turned steel-grey.

A. It wasn't until/that

B. Hardly/when

C. Not until/that

D. No sooner/that

Question 12: Who designed ______ invitations for ______ wedding? They're terrible!

A. X/the

B. the/the

C. the/X

D. X/X

Question 13: She suggested that the child ______ after her mother.

A. is named

B. names

C. name

D. be named

Question 14: "I didn't even listen to what he was saying," - "Neither ______."

A. was I

B. didn't I

C. wasn't I

D. did I

Question 15: The ______ of anxiety he experienced was such that he could hardly say a word.

A. deal

B. amount

C. number

D. quality

Question 16: ______ the door, she went outside till the cows came home.

A. Locking

B. Having locked

C. To lock

D. Locked

Question 17: Neither he nor his friends ______ at fault but he carried the can for them.

A. is

B. were

C. was

D. are

Question 18: ______ they were completely worn out at the end of the day.

A. The training so intense that

B. So intense the training was that

C. Such was the intensity of the training that

D. So great the intensity of the training was that

Question 19: She ______ off three times this week. I wonder what's wrong with her.

A. told

B. has been told

C. has told

D. was told

Question 20: You'd better ______ pulling the wool over my eyes!

A. had stopped

B. stopped

C. stopping

D. stop

Question 21: Equating these two subjects ______ like comparing chalk and cheese.

A. are

B. is

C. does

D . similarly

Question 22: I'll have a plumber ______ it for you, take it easy.

A. fixing

B. fix

C. to fix

D. fixed

Question 23: The guest told the host that ______.

A. he must have gone then

B. he had to go now

C. he must have gone now

D. he had to go then

Question 24: ______ such a sharp decrease in the oil price.

A. Never before has the world witnessed

B. Never before the world has witnessed

C. Only before hasn't the world witnessed

D. Never has the world before witnessed

Question 25: The man ______ in the face has been taken to hospital.

A. had punched

B. being punched

C. punching

D. punched

Question 26: Artists always need ______ inspiration. ______ inspiration in her case is her surroundings.

A. X/The

B. an/The

C. an/X

D. X/X

Question 27: Our manager's recommendation was that we ______ our office slightly.

A. renovated

B. renovate

C. were renovating

D. had renovated

Question 28: No one contacted me while I was going out, ______?

A. did anyone

B. did they

C. didn't they

D. didn't anyone

Question 29: It's high time you ______ what has led to this!

A. contemplating

B. contemplate

C. have contemplated

D. contemplated

Question 30: She's currently working as ______ nurse in ______ hospital near ______ River Thames.

A. a/the/the

B. a/a/X

C. a/a/the

D. a/the/X

Question 31: When grandma was alive, she ______ like any citrus fruits.

A. used not to

B. didn't use to

C. wouldn't

D. would

Question 32: They're still constantly demanding a refund ______ the goods was deemed not faulty.

A. owing to

B. despite

C. although

D. since

Question 33: The police ______ finally revealed the footage regarding the case.

A. has

B. are

C. is

D. have

Question 34: ______ her assertiveness, it's hardly surprising she got shortlisted for the post.

A. Despite

B. Given

C. Supposing

D. Although

Question 35: The country needs an objective standard ______ education can be measured.

A. in which

B. by which

C. in that

D. for that

Question 36: Although we told her he's not worth ______ over, she couldn't help ______.

A. crying/to cry

B. crying/crying

C. to cry/crying

D. to cry/to cry

Question 37: The teacher taught us that the Earth ______ around the sun forming an orbit.

A. goes

B. go

C. went

D. going

Question 38: The antique house ______ back to the 17th century has now become a city's icon.

A. dates

B. which date

C. dated

D. dating

Question 39: We will be providing water for them ______.

A. when they will finish the race

B. as soon as they've finished the race

C. as soon as they will have finished the race

D. until they finished the race

Question 40: A quarter of the people asked whether they dislike a particular product ______ yes.

A. say

B. said

C. says

D. has said

Question 41: Over the year, the deaf in Kenya ______ suffered stigma and discrimination based on their

vulnerability.

A. have

B. are

C. has

D. is

Question 42: He, together with his friends ______ able to see that the match was a foregone conclusion.

A. were

B. was

C. is

D. are

Question 43: At ______ the aristocracy.

A. the top are the society of

B. the top of the society are

C. the society are the top of

D. the society the top of are

Question 44: Macroeconomics ______ undoubtedly one of the hardest subjects she studied in UEH.

A. is

B. was

C. are

D. were

Question 45: We spoke as quietly as we could ______ other people hear us.

A. for fear of

B. otherwise

C. because

D. lest

Question 46: ______ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an

optical illusion.

A. The Moon

B. That the Moon

C. When the Moon

D. The Moon which