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English Language practice questions

Practice and sample questions for English Language, organised by the topics of the exam programme. Every question has a ready-made explanation.

Topics and practice questions

Reading
Sentence structure
Vocabulary
Verb tenses
Nouns and articles
Pronouns and determiners
Adjectives and adverbs
The passive voice
Prepositions
The imperative mood
Non-finite forms of the verb
Phonetics
Modal verbs
The numeral
Conditional sentences
Reported speech

Sample questions

Each sample shows the correct answer and the explanation.

Question 1 · Sentence structure

Choose the correct sentences with relative pronouns. 1. Everything that he told the detective was confirmed by witnesses. 2. Everything what he told the detective was confirmed by witnesses. 3. The flowers which grow in her garden smell wonderful. 4. The flowers what grow in her garden smell wonderful.

A. 1, 3, correct answer
B. 2, 3
C. 2, 4
D. 3, 4
E. 1, 4

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Sentence 1 is correct because that is the standard relative pronoun used after indefinite pronouns like everything. Sentence 3 is correct because which refers to things (flowers). Sentences 2 and 4 are ungrammatical because what cannot be used as a relative pronoun with an expressed antecedent noun or pronoun. Correct answer: A.

Question 2 · Vocabulary

Choose the correct spelling of the number 90.

A. ninety, correct answer
B. nineteen
C. nineth
D. ninty
E. ninthy

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The suffix -ty forms the tens, and nine keeps its final e: ninety. Nineteen is 19, formed with -teen. Ninty is a common spelling mistake. Correct answer: A.

Question 3 · Verb tenses

Choose the correct variant to complete the sentence. The ground was completely white because it ... heavily all night.

A. snows
B. was snowed
C. has snowed
D. had been snowing, correct answer
E. is snowing

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The main clause is in the Past Simple (was white). The reason for this past state was an activity that had been continuing over a preceding period (all night), requiring the Past Perfect Continuous (had been snowing). Using present tenses (snows, is snowing, has snowed) violates the sequence of tenses. Correct answer: D.

Question 4 · Nouns and articles

Choose the correct variant. They arrived in ... Rome in ... morning and went sightseeing.

A. -, the, correct answer
B. the, the
C. the, -
D. -, -
E. a, the

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Cities (Rome) take zero article. Portions of the day introduced by prepositions like in or during take the definite article (in the morning). A frequent mistake is either inserting the before the city or dropping the before morning. Correct answer: A.

Question 5 · Pronouns and determiners

Choose the correct variant. ... of the tourists had ... passports ready at the border control.

A. None, their, correct answer
B. Nothing, theirs
C. No, their
D. Nobody, his
E. No one, theirs

Correct answer: A

Explanation

None is the only negative pronoun among the choices that can be followed by of + noun phrase (None of the tourists). No is a determiner and cannot precede of directly, while nobody and no one do not take of-phrases in standard English. Before the noun passports, the dependent possessive their is required. Correct answer: A.

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