12th grade grammar

Question 1

Read the question and choose. Emphasise WHAT you need: "I need a long holiday." • A long holiday, I need it. • I am needing a long holiday. • It is I who need a long holiday. • What I need is a long holiday.

• A. A long holiday, I need it.
• B. I am needing a long holiday.
• C. It is I who need a long holiday.
• D. What I need is a long holiday.

Question 2

She was tired, she was hungry, she was soaked to the skin, and still she walked on. What effect does the long, list-like sentence have?

• A. It shows the writer is uncertain.
• B. It shows she was walking quickly.
• C. It creates a humorous tone.
• D. It piles up her hardships to stress her determination.

Question 3

Is this sentence correct in formal written English? The committee proposed that every member submits a short report.

• A. correct
• B. incorrect

Question 4

Which part of this sentence is being emphasised by its structure? What the scientists discovered was a new species of beetle.

• A. the scientists
• B. discovered
• C. a new species of beetle
• D. what

Question 5

Choose the form that is correct in formal written English. It's high time we ___ a decision.

• A. make
• B. made
• C. will make
• D. making

Question 6

Is this sentence correct in formal written English? So tired was her that she fell asleep at her desk.

• A. correct
• B. incorrect

Question 7

Choose the correct form to complete the emphatic sentence. Rarely ___ snow in this part of Spain.

• A. it
• B. does it
• C. is it
• D. it does

Question 8

Read the question and choose. Emphasise WHAT you need: "I need a long holiday." • It is I who need a long holiday. • A long holiday, I need it. • I am needing a long holiday. • What I need is a long holiday.

• A. It is I who need a long holiday.
• B. A long holiday, I need it.
• C. I am needing a long holiday.
• D. What I need is a long holiday.

Question 9

The city never sleeps; its lights burn, its engines growl, its people hurry. What is the effect of the three parallel clauses after the semicolon?

• A. The rule-of-three rhythm conveys the city's constant energy.
• B. They make the city seem empty and calm.
• C. They change the tense to the future.
• D. They suggest the writer dislikes lists.

Question 10

Is this sentence correct in formal written English? Did I known about the storm, I would have stayed at home.

• A. correct
• B. incorrect

Question 11

Which part of this sentence is being emphasised by its structure? It was not the price but the quality that worried us.

• A. worried
• B. the price
• C. us
• D. the quality

Question 12

Choose the form that is correct in formal written English. The committee proposed that every member ___ a short report.

• A. submitted
• B. submit
• C. submits
• D. to submit

Question 13

Is this sentence correct in formal written English? No sooner stepped she onto the stage than the lights went out.

• A. correct
• B. incorrect

Question 14

Choose the correct form to complete the emphatic sentence. Rarely ___ snow in this part of Spain.

• A. is it
• B. does it
• C. it does
• D. it

Question 15

Read the question and choose. Emphasise WHEN the shop opens: "The shop opens at nine." • The shop, it opens at nine. • What opens at nine is the shop. • It is at nine that the shop opens. • It is the shop that opens at nine.

• A. The shop, it opens at nine.
• B. What opens at nine is the shop.
• C. It is at nine that the shop opens.
• D. It is the shop that opens at nine.

Question 16

The city never sleeps; its lights burn, its engines growl, its people hurry. What is the effect of the three parallel clauses after the semicolon?

• A. The rule-of-three rhythm conveys the city's constant energy.
• B. They suggest the writer dislikes lists.
• C. They change the tense to the future.
• D. They make the city seem empty and calm.