Quiz LANGUAGE

1ST SEMESTER
Name:______________________________________________ Date:________________________

THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

A. Underline the correct answers!

1. The students have (take, took, taken) their final exam in IISS.

2. Mirza has (eat, ate, eaten) the letter.

3. The maid has (sweep, swept, sweeps) the floor at the second floor.

4. The annual performance has just (begin, began, begun) this morning.

5. We have (study, studies, studied) about Math this morning.

B. Rearrange each set of words to form a proper sentence.

1. baked – the cookies. – have – bakers – The

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2. laundries.- has – her – soaked – Najla

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3. The writers – horror – written – the – have – stories.

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4. cooked – My – has – aunty – dinner. Already

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5. destroyed – has – the cities. – The bomb

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Using Used to, Example :

1. My sister was afraid of spiders

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2. This island was a small village.

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3. I jogged five kilometres daily

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4. My neighbours made a lot of noise.

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 Quiz LANGUAGE
1ST SEMESTER
Name:______________________________________________ Date:________________________

Direct and Indirect Objects

1. My aunt bought (we, they, me) a present

2. The employer paid (my, he’s, they) their salaries.

3. The seamstress sewed (her, his, their) a new dress.

4. Nicholas sold (I, me, hers) his new bicycle.

5. The sales assistant showed (them, their, they) the product.

Rearrange each set of words!

1. showed – The sales assistant – a white dress. Carol

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2. a picture. – painted – The artist – them

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3. some lemonade. – Shane – me – poured

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4. us – Our – test. – gave – teacher – a

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5. kite. Brother – made – a – My – me

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Fill in the blank with the simple past continuous tense of the verb in the brackets!

1. The children were watching television when the lights went out. (watch)

2. I ………………….. on the stool when it broke. (sit)

3. Mrs Johnson ………………………in town when a thief snatched her purse. (shop)

4. As we…………………………….in the park, we found a puppy. (jog)

5. As I ……………………………… the house, the postal worker came. (leave)

6. While John………………………….a letter, his sister walked into the room. (write)

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