Name: ______________________ Class: _________________ Date: _________

Great Writing Foundations Unit 2: The Simple Present of Be

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the paragraph. Complete the sentences.

About Me
(1) My name is Irma. (2) I am from Mexico. (3) I live in Canada with my family. (4) Spanish is our
first language. (5) My parents are teachers. (6) They are busy every day. (7) I have one sister. (8) She is
very funny. (9) We are students at Greenville High School. (10) English is our favorite subject. (11) My
family and I are happy.

1. The subject in (1) is ________________.

2. The verb be in (2) is ________________.

3. The subject in (3) is ________________.

4. The subject in (4) is ________________.

5. The subject in (5) is ________________.

6. The subject in (6) is ________________.

INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the sentences with the correct affirmative or negative form of be.
Do not use contractions.
Examples:
We _are_ in Japan now. (affirmative)
Paris _is not_ in South America. (negative)

7. Andrea and Daniel ___________________ in Amsterdam. (negative)

8. You ___________________ a good student. (affirmative)

9. It ___________________ a difficult exam. (negative)

10. We ___________________ from Senegal. (affirmative)

11. I ___________________ healthy. (affirmative)

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Great Writing Foundations, Fifth Edition Unit 2 Test

Name: ______________________

INSTRUCTIONS: What type of information follows the verb be? Match each sentence with
the correct sentence pattern. Use the underlined word(s) to help you.
a. be + noun
b. be + adjective
c. be + adjective + noun
d. be + place phrase
e. be + time phrase
____ 12. My class is at nine o’clock.
____ 13. This is a delicious pineapple.
____ 14. The book is on the desk.
____ 15. German and Portuguese are languages.
____ 16. The flowers in the garden are pretty.

INSTRUCTIONS: Look at the words with the sound of e in bed. Choose the word in each set
that is spelled correctly.

____ 17. Which word is spelled correctly?

a. necissary
b. necessary
c. necussary

____ 18. Which word is spelled correctly?

a. get
b. gayt
c. git

____ 19. Which word is spelled correctly?

a. brede
b. bred
c. bread

____ 20. Which word is spelled correctly?

a. sais
b. says
c. sayes

____ 21. Which word is spelled correctly?

a. hed
b. head
c. haid

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Great Writing Foundations, Fifth Edition Unit 2 Test

Name: ______________________

INSTRUCTIONS: Complete each sentence with the correct word from the box.

breakfast check exercise friend help never pen seven well yellow

22. My best ________________ lives in England.

23. I ________________ my email every day.

24. Alex writes with a blue ________________.

25. A banana is a ________________ fruit.

26. We eat ________________ at eight o’clock in the morning.

27. You speak Italian very ________________.

28. Please ________________ me with my homework.

29. The opposite of always is ________________.

30. I ________________ at the gym.

31. Eight is the number after ________________.

INSTRUCTIONS: Unscramble the words to write sentences. Use correct capital letters and
punctuation.

32. homework / is / english / the / difficult / not ______________________________________________

33. not / india / of / calcutta / capital / is / the ________________________________________________

34. expensive / ring / that / is / very ________________________________________________________

35. cousins / from / my / are / los angeles ____________________________________________________

INSTRUCTIONS: These sentences are not true. Correct each sentence with a negative
sentence and an affirmative sentence. Use the information in parentheses to help you.
Example:
Morocco is a country in Asia. (Africa)
Morocco is not a country in Asia. Morocco is a country in Africa.

36. Today is Thursday. (Wednesday) _______________________________________________________

37. Milan and Rome are cities in Spain. (Italy) ________________________________________________

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Name: ______________________

38. I am eighteen years old. (twenty) ___________________________________________________________

39. A Toyota is a German car. (Japanese) _______________________________________________________

40. INSTRUCTIONS: Write 5–10 sentences about your best friend. Write about your best friend’s

name, country, city, age, and personality. Use a variety of sentence patterns with the verb be.

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Answer Section

1. ANS: My name

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2. ANS: am

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3. ANS: I

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4. ANS: Spanish

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5. ANS: My parents

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6. ANS: They

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7. ANS: are not

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8. ANS: are

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9. ANS: is not

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10. ANS: are

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11. ANS: am

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12. ANS: E PTS: 1 REF: Unit 2 TOP: Grammar
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22. ANS: friend

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23. ANS: check

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24. ANS: pen

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25. ANS: yellow

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26. ANS: breakfast

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27. ANS: well

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28. ANS: help

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29. ANS: never

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30. ANS: exercise

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31. ANS: seven

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32. ANS:
The English homework is not difficult.

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33. ANS:
Calcutta is not the capital of India.

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34. ANS:
That ring is very expensive.

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35. ANS:
My cousins are from Los Angeles.

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36. ANS:
Today is not Thursday. Today is Wednesday.

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37. ANS:
Milan and Rome are not cities in Spain. Milan and Rome are cities in Italy.

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38. ANS:
I am not eighteen years old. I am twenty years old.

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39. ANS:
A Toyota is not a German car. A Toyota is a Japanese car.

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40. ANS:
Answers will vary.

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