GRAMMAR PLACEMENT TEST

PLEASE USE YOUR OWN WORDS AT THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY

1) Explain how to use PPT (Present Perfect Tense) for FUTURE situations.

2) What kinds of state verbs do you know? Would you use the GERUND form of those verbs? Why?
* love, hate, want, know, remember, have, need.
I wouldn’t use the gerund form of them because state verbs don’t indicate an action, so I don’t use the
continuous tense.

3) Explain what is the normal order of questions formed in the following cases:
a) using the verb TO BE – To be verb + subject + other verbs
b) using other verbs – Auxiliary verb + subject + other verbs / Interrogative + subject + object.

4) Why would we use the Past Perfect Tense?

1. For actions and events that happened before a particular moment in time;
2. for reasons (after because).
Ex.: When I finished my homework, the deadline had already passed.

5) Why would we use causatives?

To talk about something that someone else did for us or for another person. It means that the subject caused
the action to happen, but didn’t do it themselves.
Ex.: I had my nails done. (I paid someone to do it for me)

6) What’s a collocation? Give 4 examples using nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs.
A collocation is a pair of words that often appear together.
NOUNS =
ADJECTIVES =
ADVERBS = daunting task
VERBS = To pay a visit

7) What’s the main difference between a collocation and a phrasal verb? Can they ever be the same?

8) What’s the importance of learning discourse markers?

When we use discourse markers, we organize better our explanation and connect the sentences. So, our
speech gets more consistent with the sentences well split.
[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/gramatica/gramatica-britanica/discourse-markers-so-right-okay]

9) Which discourse markers would you use for concession?

Okay, right, fine, great, good.

10) In the sentence: She told me that I could come over whenever I wanted. Why is the word that
optional?

11) Explain and Correct the mistakes in the following sentences:

a) I use to go to the gym everyday > I used to go to the gym everyday

I say used to in order to indicate past situations that in general continued for a long time and aren’t true
now.
c) Never I had been to such a beautiful beach > I have never been in such beautiful beach.
When I use the present perfect simple, the order is: Subject + have + past participle of the main verb.
d) The United States of America is a first world country but the Brazil isn’t. > United States of America is a
first world country, but Brazil isn’t.
We don’t use an article with a proper noun.
e) I enjoy to be with you on weekends. > I enjoy being with you on weekends.
f) But for Maria, anyone else came to the class. > Despite of Maria, anyone else came to the class.

g) I would really appreciate if you would pay back me today. > I would really appreciate if you could pay
me back today.

h) I got the most low score possible. > I got the lowest score possible.
For adjectives with one syllable, we add ‘est’ to make the superlative form.
i) He said he didn’t want talking to me about money. > He said he didn’t want to talk to me about money.
When I use the past simple with the auxiliary DO, I always put the infinitive form of the main verb.
j) My father told me don’t arrive too late because it might be dangerous. > My father told me to not arrive
too late because it might be dangerous.

k) I am wanting to buy a new car but I haven’t got money > I want to buy a new car but I haven’t got
money.
With state verbs, I don’t use the continuous tense.
l) I haven’t many friends. > I don’t have many friends.

m) We’ve got cheese sandwiches and egg one’s. What flavor do you prefer? > We’ve got cheese
sandwiches and egg one’s. Which flavor do you prefer?
When I have a limited number of options, I say WHICH and not WHAT.
n) You must come home whether it gets late. > You must come home before it gets late.
The word whether can be used to express doubts or to introduce two or more possibilities, not to restrict
something.
o) Provided you don’t talk to her, you will be in trouble. > Provided you talk to her, you won’t be in
trouble.

p) We’ve fallen them out with.

q) When I was a child, I would go to the gym every day. However, I didn’t used to go the swimming pool a
lot. > When I was a child, I would go to the gym every day. However, I didn’t use to go to the swimming
pool a lot.
When I use didn’t, the following verb should be wrote on its infinitive form.
r) There’s bound to be someone who knows the answer but I am unlike to discover who he is. > There’s
bound to be someone who knows the answer, but I’m unable to discover who he is.
Unlike means different form, not incapacity.
s) I need those papers until tomorrow. > I need those papers by tomorrow.
By indicates a deadline, whereas until doesn’t.
t) I am smelling something burning. > I’m smelling something burned.

u) My father had me do that job instead have my mum do it.

v) Should you see Rodrigo, please ask him to give a call to me > If you see Rodrigo, please ask him to give
me a call.
As I’m expressing a possibility, I should put IF. Should means it’s the correct thing to do.
w) Revolutionary technology, that is rare, usually costs a huge amount to develop. > Revolutionary
technology, that is rare, usually costs a huge amount to be developed.
x)
y) They asked me where did I live. > They asked me where I used to live.

z) I said hello but he didn’t reply. He mustn’t have heard me. >

aa) If only I studied harder for the CAE test. > Maybe only I studied hard for the CAE test.

bb) I didn’t do nothing, I swear! > I did nothing, I swear!