English Language Ireland

The Schoolhouse,
O'Brien Road
Carlow, Ireland

Tel/Fax: +353 59 91 40227
Email: info@englishlanguage.ie
Web: www.englishlanguage.ie

English Language Ireland is recognised by the Irish Department of Education and Science for the teaching of English as a foreign language

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Read through the following sentences carefully and select the word from the drop down menus that you think is correct. When you have finished the test, enter your details in the boxes provided then click the "Send me my Grade" button. Will will send you the results immediately.

1. In Ireland people are always talking about Please select... a weather the weather weather . 2. In Ireland Please select... coldest the coldest colder time of year is usually from November to February. 3. Manchester United Please select... has won won is winning their first league title in 1908. 4. Please select... The most Most of Most people don’t know the capital of Tasmania. 5. Very Please select... less little few people really care about freedom. 6. He’s getting the 12.15 flight from Madrid, Please select... isn't he hasn't he wasn't he ? 7. Some people believe that Chinese is the Please select... harder hardest more hard language to learn in the world. 8. Many students try to improve their English by Please select... hearing listening listening to online radio stations like the BBC. 9. Scarlett Johansson is very well known Please select... all in all over in all the world. 10. It takes Please select... longer long a long time to study medicine. 11. Many people is Please select... believing are believing believe that Pele was the greatest footballer of all time. 12. If he Please select... has would have had studied more, he would have passed his exams. 13. After she Please select... had won have won was winning an Olympic gold medal she became a professional athlete. 14. Ana, Please select... who which he is 18, has just started university. 15. Diego Maradona Please select... had been is was born in 1960. 16. Millions of Please select... persons people peoples around the world still don’t have access to the internet. 17. Jose was Please select... a such such a a so brilliant student that he won a scholarship to university. 18. He worked Please select... as like in a diplomat for the United Nations. 19. She was tired of Please select... to work work working in the same job day after day. 20. Please select... Till By In the end of the war, many thousands of people had been killed. 21. Learning to drive is not the same Please select... as like than learning to swim. 22. Some families now have more computers Please select... that than as televisions in their homes. 23. I look forward to Please select... hear hearing be hearing from you soon. 24. Some older people can’t get used Please select... to work to working work with the latest technologies. 25. Most people in Europe Please select... have has are having access to computers. 26. This time next week Please select... we have lived we have been living we’ll have been living in Ireland for three years. 27. I think he’s given up smoking Please select... isn't he don't I hasn't he ? 28. The teacher Please select... said told explained me that I should study harder. 29. I came to Carlow Please select... to learning learning to learn English. 30. That's the course of studies Please select... I'm interested on what I'm interested in I'm interested in 31. How long does the train take to Please select... make get arrive to Dublin? 32. I Please select... confirm insist assure you that the goods will be delivered next week. 33. It was a boring week-end. I Please select... didn't don't do didn't do anything. 34. Sally has been working here Please select... for six months since six months six months ago . 35. We're late. The film Please select... will already start will be already started will already have started by the time we get to the cinema. 36. I'm so tired I Please select... can sleep could sleep could have slept for a week. 37. You missed a great party last night. You Please select... must have come should have come ought to have come had to come . 38. If I were rich, Please select... I'll have I can have I'd have I had a yacht. 39. We Please select... woke up are woken up were woken up were waking up by a loud noise during the night. 40. Paul left the room suddenly. He said he Please select... had has have to go. 41. 'What time Please select... begins the film does begin the film does the film begin ?'. 'At 8.30.'. 42. You can't stop me Please select... doing do to do that I do what I want. 43. A friend of mine phoned Please select... for invite to invite for inviting for to invite me to a party. 44. Every day Please select... school a school the school begins at 9 and finishes at 4. 45. What time shall we Please select... meet meet us meet ourselves tomorrow?. 46. The people Please select... that they which who live in Scotland are called Scots. 47. The film was really boring. It was Please select... most boring film the more boring film the film more boring the most boring film I've ever seen. 48. 'What's the noise?' 'It sounds Please select... as like as if as though a baby crying.' 49. I'm going Please select... at on in for holiday next week. 50. These shoes are uncomfortable. I'm going to Please select... take off take them off take off them . Questions Taken from :  English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy Cambridge
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