Grammar Subject Knowledge Test
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This test is designed to allow you to test your knowledge of English grammar in the National Curriculum for England.
It is intended to give you a simple indication of your current knowledge of grammar and identify any areas of potential weakness that you might wish to improve on.
It takes between 15 and 30 minutes to complete.
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Grammar Subject Knowledge Test: The Grammar Test
Please answer all of the questions and part-questions. This test is not timed.
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Question 1
Which of these words are nouns?
Question 2
How many nouns are there in this sentence?
Question 3
Select the statement that is true about nouns.
Question 4
Identify all the words in the first noun phrase contained in this sentence.
Question 5
Which of the following is an extended noun phrase?
Question 6
Identify the pronouns in this sentence.
Question 7
Which word cannot be a demonstrative pronoun?
Question 8
How many determiners are there in this sentence?
Question 9
Which word cannot be a determiner?
Question 10
Identify the adjective in this sentence.
Question 11
How many adjectives are there in this sentence?
Question 12
Select the statement that is true about adjectives.
Question 13
Identify the adjective phrase contained in this sentence.
Question 14
How many prepositions are in this sentence?
Question 15
Which of these statements about prepositions is true?
Question 16
How many preposition phrases are there in this sentence?
Question 17
Identify the preposition phrase in this sentence.
Question 18
In a preposition phrase, the preposition cannot be followed by one of the following. Which is it?
Question 19
Identify the verbs in these sentences.
Question 20
Which of these statements is true of verbs?
Question 21
Find the sentence that does not contain an auxiliary verb.
Question 22
Which of the following statements about auxiliary verbs is untrue?
Question 23
Which of these sentences is not in the passive voice?
Question 24
Which of these statements is not true of sentences in the passive voice?
Question 25
Which sentence does not contain a modal auxiliary verb?
Question 26
Which of these statements is not true of modal auxiliary verbs?
Question 27
Which of these statements are correct?
Question 28
Which form of the verb is used in the sentences below?
Question 29
Identify the adverbs in these sentences.
Question 30
Which of the following statements is not true of adverbs?
Question 31
Identify the adverb phrase in the sentence below.
Question 32
Which of these statements is not true of adverb phrases?
Question 33
Identify the coordinating conjunctions in these sentences.
Question 34
Which of these statements is not true of coordinating conjunctions?
Question 35
Identify the subordinating conjunctions in these sentences.
Question 36
Which of these statements is not true of subordinating conjunctions?
Question 37
Identify the main clause in the sentence below.
Question 38
Identify the subordinate clause in the sentence below.
Question 39
Identify the single-clause and multi-clause sentences.
Question 40
Match the sentence to the correct clause pattern.
Question 41
Which of these statements about clause patterns is false?
Question 42
Identify the Subjects of these sentences.
Question 43
Which of these is not true of Subjects?
Question 44
Identify the Objects in these sentences.
Question 45
One of the following is not true of Objects. Which one?
Question 46
Identify the Adverbial in these sentences.
Question 47
Which of the following is not true of Adverbials?
Question 48
In each case below, indicate whether the items on the left are grammatical form labels or grammatical function labels.
Question 49
Identify the grammatical forms of the highlighted words in each case.
Question 50
Identify the grammatical functions of the highlighted units.
Finish
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Test results
Test 47. Monday 4 March 2024
Score: 30.56 out of 50
| 1. | Nouns, pronouns and noun phrases | 6.6 / 7 94% | 2. | Determiners, adjectives and adjective phrases | 4 / 6 67% | ||
| 3. | Prepositions and preposition phrases | 1.7 / 5 34% | 4. | Verbs, auxiliary verbs and verb phrases | 4 / 10 40% | ||
| 5. | Adverbs and adverb phrases | 2.5 / 4 63% | 6. | Conjunctions | 1.3 / 4 33% | ||
| 7. | Clauses and clause patterns | 3.3 / 5 66% | 8. | Subjects and Objects | 2.9 / 4 73% | ||
| 9. | Adverbials | 1.6 / 2 80% | 10. | Form and Function | 2.2 / 3 73% |