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Idioms

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    Idioms - Matching Quiz

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      As ___ as a bat.
      As ___ as a bee.
      As ___ as a bell.
      As ___ as a daisy.
      As ___ as an eel.
      As ___ as a feather.
      As ___ as a fox.
      As ___ as the hills.
      As ___ as a mouse.
      As ___ as a mule.


    Copyright (C) 1998 Vera Mello (vcqm@ruralsp.com.br)
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Mid Term Year 5

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Idioms

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Irregular verbs

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Test Vocabulary by Picture

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Test English Vocabulary

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Irregular Verbs

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Most verbs have past tense and past participle in –ed ( worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular:
Base formPast tensePast participle
be
begin
break
bring
buy
build
choose
come
cost
cut
do
draw
drive
eat
feel
find
get
give
go
have
hear
hold
keep
know
leave
lead
let
lie
lose
make
mean
meet
pay
put
run
say
see
sell
send
set
sit
speak
spend
stand
take
teach
tell
think
understand
wear
win
write
was/were
began
broke
brought
bought
built
chose
came
cost
cut
did
drew
drove
ate
felt
found
got
gave
went
had
heard
held
kept
knew
left
led
let
lay
lost
made
meant
met
paid
put
ran
said
saw
sold
sent
set
sat
spoke
spent
stood
took
taught
told
thought
understood
wore
won
wrote		been
begun
broken
brought
bought
built
chosen
come
cost
cut
done
drawn
driven
eaten
felt
found
got
given
gone
had
heard
held
kept
known
left
led
let
lain
lost
made
meant
met
paid
put
run
said
seen
sold
sent
set
sat
spoken
spent
stood
taken
taught
told
thought
understood
worn
won
written

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Present Tense Test

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Test on Simple Present 1

Test your knowledge on the simple present. After submitting your answers, you will see how well you have done in the test.

Test

Form of Affirmative Sentences - Part 1

Choose the correct form.
  1. We sometimes  books.
  2. Emily  to the disco.
  3. It often  on Sundays.
  4. Pete and his sister  the family car.
  5. I always  to the bus stop.

Form of Affirmative Sentences - Part 2

Put the verbs into the correct form.
  1. I (to like)  lemonade very much.
  2. The girls always (to listen)  to pop music.
  3. Janet never (to wear)  jeans.
  4. Mr Smith (to teach)  Spanish and French.
  5. You (to do)  your homework after school.

Simple present with 'have' and 'be'

Fill in the correct form of the verbs.
  1. We (to have)  a nice garden.
  2. She (to be)  six years old.
  3. Simon (to have)  two rabbits and five goldfish.
  4. I (to be)  from Vienna, Austria.
  5. They (to be)  Sandy's parents.

Negative Sentences

Make negative sentences.
  1. My father makes breakfast. → 
  2. They are eleven. → 
  3. She writes a letter. → 
  4. I speak Italian. → 
  5. Danny phones his father on Sundays. → 

Questions

Make questions.
  1. you / to speak / English → 
  2. when / he / to go / home → 
  3. they / to clean / the bathroom → 
  4. where / she / to ride / her bike → 
  5. Billy / to work / in the supermarket → 

Signal Words

Find the signal words for simple present.
  1. Which is a signal word for simple present?
      
  2. Which is a signal word for simple present?
      
  3. Which is a signal word for simple present?
      
  4. Which is not a signal word for simple present?
      
  5. Which is not a signal word for simple present?
      
Before submitting the test, check the following:
  • Got the spelling right?
  • Put in the full stop or question mark where required?
  • Used the correct key to type the apostrophe (Shift and #)?
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Subject Verb Agreement

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Subject - Verb Agreement
© 2000, 1978 Margaret L. Benner   All rights reserved.

Although you are probably already familiar with basic subject-verb agreement, this chapter begins with a quick review of basic agreement rules.
Subjects and verbs must AGREE with one another in number (singular or plural).  Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.
In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form.
                                     
These agreement rules do not apply to verbs used in the simple past tense without any helping verbs.
                  
The agreement rules do, however, apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is-are, was-were, has-have, does-do.
                      
The agreement rules do not apply to has-have when used as the SECOND helping verb in a pair. 
                     
They do NOT apply to any other helping verbs, such as can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, must.
                 
The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns except I and you, which, although SINGULAR, require PLURAL forms of verbs.
  
Now click on the link below to do exercise 1.  
       Link to Exercise 1
The remainder of this teaching unit deals with some more advanced subject-verb agreement rules and with exceptions to the original subject-verb agreement rule
Compound Subject
  The word “compound” means “made up of two or more parts.”  Two or more words can be compounded or linked by joining them with any of three words:
                                               and, or, and nor
Here are some examples of compounding:
              
Compound nouns can function as a “compound subject.”  In some instances, a compound subject poses special problems for the subject-verb agreement rule (+s, -s).
 
However, instead of using two sentences (as above), we may choose to give the above information in one sentence.
                      
This sentence makes use of a compound subject (two subject nouns joined by and), illustrating a new rule about subject-verb agreement.
Although each part of the compound subject is singular (ranger and camper), taken together (joined by and), each one becomes a part of a plural structure and, therefore, must take a plural verb (see) to agree in the sentence.
SUBJECT-VERB RULE #1 – Two or more singular (or plural) subjects joined by and act as a plural compound subject and take a plural verb(singular + singular = plural).
You can check the verb by substituting the pronoun they for the compound subject.
                        
Or and nor as joiners work somewhat differently from and.  While the word and seems to ADD things together, or and nor do not.  They suggest a CHOICE.
                    
Look at this sentence.
                   
This sentence makes use of a compound subject (two subject nouns joined together by or).  Each part of the compound subject (ranger, camper) is singular.  Even though both words function together as subject (joined by or), the subject still remains SINGULAR (ranger or camper) since a CHOICE is implied.
This compound subject, therefore, requires a singular verb to agree with it.
SUBJECT-VERB RULE #2 – Two or more SINGULAR subjects joined by or (or nor) act as a singular compound subject and, therefore, take asingular verb to agree.
Note:  Two or more plural subjects joined by or (or nor) would naturally take a plural verb to agree.
                          
However, or and nor can pose a more difficult problem.
Thus far we have been working with compound subjects whose individual parts are both either singular or plural
      
 What if one part of the compound subject is singular and the other part is plural?
              
What form of a verb should be used in this case?  Should the verb be singular to agree with one word?  Or should the verb be plural to agree with the other?
Solution:
1.      If the individual parts of the compound subject are joined by and, always use a plural verb.
                        
2.      If the individual parts of the compound subject are joined by or or nor, use the verb form (singular or plural) which will agree with the subject closerto the verb.
       
Now click on the link below to do exercise 2.  
       Link to Exercise 2
Group Nouns
Some nouns which name groups can be either singular or plural depending upon their meaning in individual sentences.
                              
Because they can describe either the individuals in the group (more than one – plural), or the group as a single entity (one only – singular), these nouns pose special problems.
However, there are some guidelines for deciding which verb form (singular or plural) to use with one of these nouns as the subject in a sentence.
If we refer to the group as a whole and, therefore, as a single unit, we consider the noun singular.  In this case, we use a singular verb. 
                  
If, on the other hand, we are actually referring to the individuals within the group, then we consider the noun plural.  In this case, we use a plural verb.
         
Of course group nouns, like other nouns, can also appear in plural forms (with an s).
                      
When used in the plural form, group nouns mean MORE THAN ONE GROUP.  Thus, it uses a plural verb.
                 
Thus, there are three important subject – verb agreement rules to remember when a group noun is used as the subject:
1.      Group nouns can be considered as a single unit, and, thus, take a singular verb.
2.      Group nouns can be considered as individual members within a single unit and, thus, take a plural verb.
3.      Group nouns can be given plural forms to mean two or more units and, thus, take a plural verb.
Now click on the link below to do exercise 3.  
        Link to Exercise 3

Plural Form / Singular Meaning Nouns
Some nouns are regularly plural in form, but singular in meaning.
                            
Even though these nouns APPEAR to be plural because they end in s, they actually refer to only one thing made up of smaller, uncounted parts. Therefore, they are considered singular.
                  
You can see that substituting that pronoun it instead of they makes more sense here.
Another group of plural form nouns end in –ics.
                     
Similarly, it is a more suitable substitute for any of these words than is they.
These nouns appear to be plural (end in s), but generally refer to only one thing and are, therefore, generally considered singular.
              
NOTE:  Occasionally, however, the –ics nouns can have a plural meaning:  We can speak about individual parts of these wholes.  In this case, we apply the same rule as applies to group nouns when we consider the individual members within the group (see Section 3.3):  We use a plural verb.
Note the difference in meaning and, therefore, in the verb chosen (singular or plural) between the two uses of the –ics noun, statistics.
       
Now click on the link below to do exercise 4.  
        Link to Exercise 4
Indefinite pronouns can pose special problems in subject – verb agreement.
The difficulty is that some indefinite pronouns sound plural when they are really singular.
As subjects, the following indefinite pronouns ALWAYS take singular verbs.  Look at them closely.
                  
                                                  These should be easy to remember.
                
However, the following indefinite pronouns ALWAYS take plural verbs.
                                  
              
EXCEPTIONS:
A third group of indefinite pronouns takes either a singular or plural verb depending on the pronoun’s meaning in the sentence.  Look at them closely.
                                      (“SANAM”)
   
Now click on the link below to do exercise 5.  
        Link to Exercise 5
So far we have considered subjects that can cause subject-verb agreement confusion: compound subjects, group noun subjects, plural form – singular meaning subjects, and indefinite subjects.
The remainder of this teaching unit examines subject – verb agreement problems that can result from word placement in sentences.  There are four main problems: prepositional phrases, clauses beginning with who, that, or which, sentences beginning with here or there, and questions.
              
                                      
Here is a list of frequently used prepositions:
                              
A prepositional phrase may be placed between the subject and verb.
                    
In the above example, the singular verb is agrees with the singular subject boy.
Sometimes, however, a prepositional phrase inserted between the subject and verb makes agreement more difficult.
      
Car is the singular subject.  Was is the singular helping verb which agrees with car.  If we aren’t careful, however, we may mistakenly label riders as the subject since it is nearer to the verb than car is.  If we choose the plural noun, riders, we will incorrectly select the plural verb were.
      
Solution to the Prepositional Phrase Problem
1.      Learn the major prepositions (see page 28).
2.      Be alert for prepositional phrases placed between the subject and verb, and identify the noun in the phrase immediately as the object of a preposition: An object of a preposition can NEVER be a sentence subject.
3.      Locate the true sentence subject and choose a verb which agrees with it.
                 
4.      Remember the indefinite pronoun EXCEPTIONS considered in Section 3.5, p.18:  Some, Any, None, All, and Most.  The number of these subject words IS affected by a prepositional phrase between the subject and verb.
Now click on the link below to do exercise 6.  
        Link to Exercise 6
A clause beginning with who, that, or which and coming BETWEEN the subject and verb can cause agreement problems.
Like the prepositional phrase, the who / that / which clause never contains the subject.
  
TO AVOID SUBJECT – VERB AGREEMENT ERRORS  . . .
1.      Identify who / that / which clauses immediately.
              
2.  Locate the true sentence subject and choose a verb that agrees with it.
             
Now click on the link below to do exercise 7.  
        Link to Exercise 7
When a sentence begins with there is – there are / here is – here are, the subject and verb are inverted.  After all that you have learned already, you will undoubtedly find this topic a relatively easy one!
                      
The verb in such constructions is obviously is or are.  The subject, however, does not come BEFORE the verb.
Instead, the subject in this kind of sentence comes AFTER the verb, so you must look for it AFTER the verb. 
                
In this example, because the subject, book, is singular, the verb must also be singular.
If the subject is plural, however, then the verb must be plural.
                      
In this example, because the subject, books, is plural, the verb is also plural.
Remember: In here is – here are / there is – there are constructions, look for the subject AFTER the verb and choose a singular (is) or a plural (are) verb to agree with the subject.
And finally, sometimes creating a question will cause the subject to follow the verb as well. Here, identify the subject and then choose the verb that agrees with it (singular or plural).
                      
      
Now click on the link below to do exercise 8.
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