Answers to Grammar practice I

I.Tenses (20 marks, 1 mark for each correct answer)

e.g. hopes

1 2 3 4 5
will take have chosen/ is showed consume
are choosing/
chose

6 7 8 9 10
accounts contribute burn are polluting want

11 12 13 14 15
are go Is wear have

16 17 18 19 20
wears uses becomes/is refuse is beginning
becoming/ has
become

II. Parts of Speech (10 marks, 1 mark for each correct answer)

1 2 3 4 5
noun noun verb adjective adjective

6 7 8 9 10
(possessive) pronoun conjunction preposition adverb
pronoun
Proofreading (20 marks, 1 mark for each correct answer)

Dear Jennifer,
to
1 I am very happy ^become your new pen-pal.
excited
2 I was very exciting to receive your first letter with the
enclosed
3 enclose photos a couple of days ago. I hope that we can
other
4 learn a lot from each others as our lives seem to be
different
5 very difference. I wonder if we’d be able to adapt
homes
6 to each other’s home if we had to. Your home looks
surrounded
7 very large and is surround by snow. Mine is very small
here
8 and it is usually very hot there. I live very near my
on
9 school and I can get there by foot. You have to travel
it
10 miles by bus every day. Don’t you find ^tiring, and
that
11 sometimes rather dangerous with all those snow?
am
12 I^ afraid I have never tried skiing or played ice-hockey,
the
13 but I like to relax at the end of^ day in front of the TV
is
14 and watch cartoons. I can’t say my favourite food was

15√ pizza. I like hamburgers, but mainly I am a noodle-maniac.

16 My father is a taxi-driver and often has to work at the

does
17 night. My mum works in a small office and she do all sorts
time
18 of different jobs. I spend most of my times doing
homework
19 homeworks, and that’s what I must do next. Looking
hearing
20 forward to hear from you soon!

Janice