GW 4 - Practice Grammar Final

Part 1. Verb Review. Directions: Write the best verb tense and form of the verbs given. Every verb tense we have studied is used in this story.

Right now, you (review) for your grammar test. The test

(take place) next week, but teachers usually

(encourage) students (start)

(study) sooner rather than later. The test (create) by your grammar teachers.

They (meet) last week (talk) about the test and (decide) if it was a good test of your abilities in this class.

They (decide) that it was. They all think that you

(learn) a lot this quarter!

While the teachers (talk about) the test, they

(look at) the clock and saw that it was 12:00! It

(be) time to go to class, and they (be) all late! Anne

(be) worried that her students would (lock) her out of the classroom. Josh (realize) that he (not, would, have) time to get his coffee before class. He was very disappointed because he

(not, be able to) drink any coffee that morning before he

(get) together with the other GW 4 teachers. Christina

(wonder) if she would have time to get the key to the computer lab. Yvette

(remain) calm, relaxed, and cheerful because at that moment she

______(know) that everything would be okay. GW 4 - Practice Grammar Final

Part 3A. Adjective Clauses: Finish each sentence using who, whom, that, which, whose, where, when. Don’t use who as an object relative pronoun – only use “whom”. If more than one answer is possible, choose only one.

1. It is now final exams week, all the classes have big tests.

2. If you don’t understand the directions are on a test, you should ask your teacher, will help you do your best.

3. This practice test will help you prepare for the test you will take later in the week.

4. Kevin is the teacher first career was skydiving.

Part 3B. Adjective Clauses Combine the following pairs of sentences to make adjective clauses. Use the second sentence to form the adjective clause. Do not change the meaning or the verb tenses, and change the first sentence as little as possible.

Note: Use commas if the clause is “extra information.”

1. The test is several pages long. The test includes most grammar points we’ve studied this quarter. ______

2. I’m going to visit my teacher before class. Her office is on the second floor of IB. ______

3. Stephanie will teach GW 4 again next quarter. Stephanie is my teacher. ______

4. Paul and Rosa teach GW 4. Their textbooks are the same. ______

GW 4 - Practice Grammar Final

Part 4. Modals. Directions: Circle the answer that best completes the sentence.

1. We’re tired. We write a whole essay last weekend.

a. should have b. had to c. should to d. haven’t had

2. When I was a child, I speak two languages. Now I can speak only one. a. can b. could able to c. be able to d. could

3. The final exam twenty pages long! That’s too long and it will be impossible to complete!

a. can be b. must be c. couldn’t be d. could

4. I have started studying for my finals last week, but I didn’t.

a. had to b. ought to c. has to d. ought not to

Part 5. Conditional Sentences: Directions: Circle the letter of the best answer.

1. A: I didn’t come to school on Monday for the grammar review.

B: If you had come, gotten a preview of the test.

a. you had b. you wouldn’t have

c. you will have d. you would have

2. A: I have been studying for our final exam for two weeks!

B: If you study a little bit every day, more on the day of the test.

a. you will remember b. you would have remembered

c. you remembered d. you had remembered

3. A: I wish I tests. GW 4 - Practice Grammar Final B: Me, too.

a. haven’t had to take b. wouldn’t have to take

c. didn’t have to take d. taked

Part 7. The Passive Voice. Read the sentences and decide if they are active or passive. If a sentence is active, write an A on the line. If a sentence is passive, write P on the line.

_____ 1. The students took the test.

_____ 2. The test was written by the teachers.

_____ 3. Students from all over the world come to Seattle by airplane.

Part 8. The Passive Voice. Write active and passive sentences. Use “they” in active sentences when you don’t know the subject. The first one is done for you as an example.

1. (active) They review their notes from class every day.

(passive) Their notes from class are reviewed every day. 2. (active)

(passive) The vocabulary notes were reviewed by the students.

3. (active) She will give her presentation on Wednesday.

(passive)