6月2012å¹´ – Grammar Review (Answers)

 
–This section will cover a broad range of different grammar rules and explanations to help you understand sentence structure and improve awareness of English grammar.
このコーナーでは文法の規則や英文の構成についてわかりやすく学べます。
General Grammar review
Check your understanding by selecting the correct answer below: 
Read each of the following of sentences and select the best answer. Print out this lesson plan and ask your teacher to assist you in understanding the grammar rules.
Subject – Verb Agreement
 
1 Anthony doesn’t usually (go / going/ went) to school on the weekends.
2 Could you please (remind / reminds/ reminding) me to pick up some milk at the store.
3 What time did you (woke / get / got) up this morning?
4 After (wake / woke/ waking) up, what did you do?
5 Are you looking forward to (visit / visiting/ visits) your parents this Summer?
6 Were you (sleep / slept / sleeping) when I called last night?
7 How (do you feeling / are you feeling / you are feeling) now? Better than before?
8 Hiroko ( burn / burned / was burning) her hand while she was cooking dinner.
9 This past weekend was boring. I (did / didn’t do / didn’t) anything.
10 Kim isn’t here. (She goes / She went / She gone) out.
Answers: 1. go 2. remind 3. get 4. waking 5. visiting 6. sleeping 7. are you feeling 8. burned 9. didn’t do 10. went
Moderate level exercises:
Read each of the following of sentences and write the correct form of the verb in the blanks. Print out this lesson plan and ask your teacher to assist you in understanding the grammar rules.
 
Directions: Write the correct form of the verb in parenthesis to fit with the sentence using either the present simple, present continuous, past simple, or past continuous.
 
1 We can go out now. It ________________ (not/rain) anymore.
2 When I ________________ (arrive) last night, Samantha ________________ (wait) for me in front of the ticket gates.
3 What ________________ (you/do) in your spare time? Do you have any hobbies?
4 How fast ________________ (the car/go) at the time of the accident?
5 Hiroaki usually ________________ (call) me on Fridays, but he ________________ (not/call) last Friday.
6 When I last saw you, you ________________ (search) for a job. Have you ________________ (find) one yet?
7 Last night, the phone ________________(ring) three times while we ________________ (have) dinner.
8 When I first ________________ (tell) my mother about the news, she ________________ (not/believe) me. She ________________ (think) that I ________________ (joke).
9 Linda was busy when we ________________ (go) to see her yesterday.
10 I ________________ (see) Sue downtown yesterday, but she ________________ (not/see) me. She ________________ (look) the other way.
Answers: 1. is not raining 2. arrived, was waiting 3. do you 4. was the car going 5. calls, didn’t call 6. were looking, found 7. rang, were having 8. told, didn’t believe, thought, was joking 9. went 10. saw, didn’t see, was looking