English grammar & language usage (entrance exams) worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Which sentence is in the future tense?

  1. AWe are visiting the museum now.
  2. BWe will visit the museum tomorrow.
  3. CWe visited the museum yesterday.
  4. DWe visit the museum every week.
2.Easy

Which word is a pronoun?

  1. Avery
  2. Beverybody
  3. Cever
  4. Devery
3.Easy

Which sentence is punctuated correctly as a question?

  1. AAre you feeling better today,
  2. BAre you feeling better today?
  3. CAre you feeling? better today
  4. DAre you feeling better today.
4.Medium

Choose the correct word: “The flowers smell ___.”

  1. Asweetness
  2. Bsweet
  3. Csweeten
  4. Dsweetly
5.Medium

Choose the correct form: “She is one of the ___ nurses on the unit.”

  1. Abestest
  2. Bgoodest
  3. Cmost good
  4. Dbest
6.Medium

Choose the correct verb: “Where ___ the extra blankets kept?”

  1. Aare
  2. Bwas
  3. Cis
  4. Ddoes
7.Hard

Which phrase puts the adjectives in the usual English order?

  1. Aa wooden old lovely table
  2. Ban old lovely wooden table
  3. Ca lovely wooden old table
  4. Da lovely old wooden table
8.Hard

What is the indirect object in this sentence? “The nurse handed the patient a cup of water.”

  1. Anurse
  2. Bwater
  3. Cpatient
  4. Dcup

Answer key

  1. 1. B · We will visit the museum tomorrow.
  2. 2. B · everybody
  3. 3. B · Are you feeling better today?
  4. 4. B · sweet
  5. 5. D · best
  6. 6. A · are
  7. 7. D · a lovely old wooden table
  8. 8. C · patient

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