Structure of English Practice Test

Which of the following sentence/s depict/s a dative case?

The following are basic simple sentence patterns in English except _____.

The following are linguistic mechanisms that Halliday and Hassan (1976) point in order for texts to have cohesion except _____.

What lexical process is exemplified by the following? Get as to procure, to become, or to understand.

Which of the following is grammatical?

The following sentences are considered ungrammatical except _____.

Which approach to grammar refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and writers?

The sentence structure contains a “ditransitive verb group”.

Which of the following types of words does not fit into the category of determiners?

Which of the following statements is true with regard to the use of the present perfect tense?

A teacher is teaching English to her class, and she needs to explain the concept of count and non-count nouns. The following sentence, “The water in the pitcher is running low,” is an example of _____.

A teacher is preparing a lesson about the different types of pronouns. Which type of pronoun is used to replace a noun or noun phrase to make your sentences brief and less repetitive?

Mrs. Ampon is discussing tense-aspect combinations with her class, and she needs to give an example of the present perfect tense. Which of the following sentences is an example of the present perfect tense?

The English teacher asked the students to identify the verb agreement in a sentence. Which sentence below demonstrates a correct verb agreement between the correlative subjects ‘either… of’?

Teacher Marites reminded the students to identify the subject and verb agreement in a sentence. Which sentence below demonstrates a correct verb agreement between the subject ‘number’ and the verb?

Mr. Cornejo gave the students examples of phrases and clauses that intervene between the subject and verb in a sentence. Which sentence below demonstrates a correct verb agreement regardless of the prepositional phrases that Intervene between the subject and verb?

A student wants to know why adjectives such as unique, possible, impossible, etc. cannot be compared in degree, unlike other gradable adjectives. Which of the following is the most appropriate response to the student’s question?

Marisol wants to know how to teach the order of adjectives in a noun group to her students. Which of the following is the most appropriate response to the teacher’s question?

Enrique wants to know when to use adverbs of frequency in a sentence. Which of the following is the most appropriate response to the student’s question?

A teacher assigned a writing task to her students and provided them with a rubric that includes the criteria for evaluation. One of the criteria states that “Writing should be free from subject-verb agreement errors”. One of the students submitted a paragraph that contains the following sentence: “Neither of my siblings is interested in English, but I was inspired by the books that I read.”

Which of the following statements is true regarding the subject-verb agreement in the sentence above?