Elements of grammar

Part Five Find a Mistake (1)

Test 92

1. 
   A them speak
   
2. 
   D were open
   
3. 
   C despite
   
4. 
   B was enjoying
   
5. 
   C searching
   
6. 
   D read it
   
7. 
   A not familiar to
   
8. 
   Da two-mile walk
   
9. 
   C to accompany
   
10. 
    B stay-at-home mothers
    
11. 
    Bat hand
    
12. 
    C lay
    
13. 
    D to you
    
14. 
    B were
    
15. 
    B overhearing
    

Test 93

1. 
   A What
   
2. 
   D yourself
   
3. 
   C was holding
   

4. 
   C found
   
5. 
   B he will take
   
6. 
   C influenced her
   
7. 
   D fair
   
8. 
   Bof
   
9. 
   C the missing books
   
10. 
    B whether
    
11. 
    Dwhat
    
12. 
    B a 30-metre bronze statue
    
13. 
    D what time it was
    
14. 
    B is ready
    
15. 
    A were forced
    

Test 94

1. 
   A Although
   
2. 
   B known
   
3. 
   B the shore
   
4. 
   B I'll tell you
   
5. 
   C may/might not have been told
   
6. 
   A During
   
7. 
   Bon
   
8. 
   B had begun
   
9. 
   B much greater
   
10. 
    B beginning
    
11. 
    C quiet
    
12. 
    D a good night's sleep
    
13. 
    A Although
    
14. 
    A His 12-volume series of novels
    
15. 
    C loosely
    

Test 95

1. 
   A to use
   
2. 
   A these Scottish and Irish authors
   , 3. A considered
   

f 4. C Alaska and California

I 5. A at first sight

6. 
   D what the name of the place was
   
7. 
   C for the land
   
8. 
   D it never lasts long
   
9. 
   B point to point
   
10. 
    D in the days to come
    
11. 
    A the other day
    
12. 
    C broken-hearted
    
13. 
    B what has been accomplished
    
14. 
    D just like his left hand
    
15. 
    B publishing process
    

Test 96

1. 
   B deadly fall
   
2. 
   D kills
   
3. 
   C Mercury
   
4. 
   D he lost
   
5. 
   B has been
   
6. 
   B a very just appreciation
   
7. 
   A By age 33
   
8. 
   B regarding
   
9. 
   A The sole reason for publishing
   
10. 
    B from Wellesley College
    
11. 
    C three-electrode vacuum tube
    
12. 
    C coming
    
13. 
    B with a succession
    
14. 
    A Between this mountainous region
    
15. 
    Aon board
    

Test 97

1. 
   B more freely
   
2. 
   C in itself
   
3. 
   A Booking
   
4. 
   B in early March
   
5. 
   B European Russia
   
6. 
   B Australia's spring
   
7. 
   D undeveloped
   

8. 
   A Coffee
   
9. 
   Da few government officials
   
10. 
    D decided to join him
    
11. 
    A long winter evenings
    
12. 
    D in vain
    
13. 
    A Knowing
    
14. 
    B of the oxen
    
15. 
    D would never have been written
    

Test 98

1. 
   B hardly daring to draw
   
2. 
   D every imaginable colour
   
3. 
   D went to work cutting down trees
   
4. 
   B freedom from danger
   
5. 
   D our cattle were driven
   
6. 
   D more than 134 m tall
   
7. 
   C against bacteria
   
8. 
   D the Mediterranean
   
9. 
   C is said to shorten
   
10. 
    D he arrived in Spain
    
11. 
    C to take
    
12. 
    A were assured
    
13. 
    C on Christmas Day
    
14. 
    C should have continued
    
15. 
    B welcome enough
    

Test 99

1. 
   B complained of the cold
   
2. 
   D reached the shore
   
3. 
   B result from twisting
   
4. 
   D rejected the plan
   
5. 
   C recruiting
   
6. 
   D in width
   
7. 
   C although
   
8. 
   A Although
   
9. 
   D ailing parents
   

1. 
   C the riches
   
2. 
   B comparatively slowly
   
3. 
   C anxious
   
4. 
   D the other day
   
5. 
   D for the most part
   
6. 
   B both in Persian and
   

Test 100

1....A Surprised and puzzled

2. 
   C to have been
   
3. 
   D financial information
   
4. 
   B whose location
   
5. 
   C get out of
   
6. 
   C but he died
   
7. 
   Cas
   
8. 
   A were alive
   
9. 
   D an established course of study
   
10. 
    B for fun
    
11. 
    C in time
    
12. 
    B by measuring
    
13. 
    D especially strong
    
14. 
    B is now faced with
    
15. 
    A sound advice
    

Test 101

1. 
   C make it impossible
   
2. 
   B would have enabled
   
3. 
   A on purpose
   
4. 
   A for
   
5. 
   A introduced
   
6. 
   C preference
   
7. 
   C a story...
   
8. 
   B remained hidden
   
9. 
   A on Michael Jordan's
   
10. 
    A Because of the extreme cold
    
11. 
    C look for
    

12. 
    D I am asked
    
13. 
    B visit
    
14. 
    C of four musicians
    
15. 
    D intact
    

Part Six Find a Mistake (2)

Test 102

1. 
   ... which had been scarce during wartime....
   
2. 
   From Montreal to Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence
   River ...
   
3. 
   ... to allow commercial vessels to navigate this part
   of the river...
   
4. 
   Lack of food forced the party to turn back within
   179 km of the pole.
   
5. 
   ... because none of us knows exactly how many
   species exist on Earth.
   

6... and other European trade goods in exchange

for furs.

7. 
   ... but when that was conquered in 1909 ...
   
8. 
   He together with his companions was ready for the
   journey ...
   
9. 
   Trucks are usually larger and heavier than auto­
   mobiles ...
   

10. 
    ... can maneuver through tight turns more easily
    than standard trailers can.
    
11. 
    ... hair can be repeatedly washed ...
    
12. 
    ... that was absolutely fascinating.
    
13. 
    ... each of whom is a department head.
    
14. 
    First cultivated in South America, ...
    
15. 
    ... and youth is the one thing worth having.
    

Test 103

1. During War II, Miami served as a major military training area, ...

2. 
   ... destroy brick buildings, ...
   
3. 
   The moment I met you I saw that you were quit
   unconscious ...
   
4. 
   ... the government is said to fall, ...
   
5. 
   ... and ashamed of being afraid.
   
6. 
   ... a person should lie flat in a ditch ...
   
7. 
   ... and never listen either, ...
   
8. 
   In 1642 Pascal created a machine to free his fa
   ther, ...
   
9. 
   Let us have something iced to drink, ...
   

10. 
    She could not help liking ...
    
11. 
    For nearly ten minutes he stood there, motion
    less, ...
    
12. 
    The captain handed me his binoculars. Through
    them ...
    
13. 
    Unless they resign, ...
    
14. 
    ... as if a hand of ice had been laid upon his heart
    
15. 
    ... you had better lose no time.
    

Test 104

1. 
   ... to the right, Dorian, like a good boy,...
   
2. 
   While the calculator is a very modern invention, .
   
3. 
   ... as if he had recognized himself ...
   
4. 
   You should not have gone awav when I asked you
   
5. 
   Both of you have made me hate ...
   
6. 
   ... Armstrong could be seen ...
   
7. 
   ... typically comprises members of the party ...
   
8. 
   The means ... have improved immensely ...
   
9. 
   He was seated at the piano, ...
   

10. 
    ... for which a variety of clothing is available.
    
11. 
    He was certainly wonderfully handsome. ...
    
12. 
    ... and vary from state to state.
    
13. 
    ... a new technological development — paper — ...
    
14. 
    He is a professional brother of yours, and vour
    presence ...
    
15. 
    ... don't take your uncle's birthday gift ...
    

Test 105

1. 
   ... that made one trust him at once.
   
2. 
   The painter was busy mixing his colours ...
   
3. 
   ... as well as all youth's passionate purity.
   
4. 
   ... and collections have been exhibited in museums ...
   
5. 
   ... it awfully rude of me if ...
   
6. 
   ... and are classified bv weight, type, ...
   
7. 
   ... are governed by strict, internationally recog­
   nized racing rules.
   
8. 
   Renaissance books established the convention ...
   
9. 
   The tea ... has been drunk in China ...
   

10. 
    We found ourselves in the midst of a tropical for­
    est, ...
    

10. 
    ... if 1 paid him well for his services.
    
11. 
    The accident gave Bell insight into how voices ...
    
12. 
    One felt that he had kept himself unspotted ...
    

10. 
    .... are determined by certain criteria, many of
    which are, ...
    
11. 
    ... between two keen, grey eyes, set closely to­
    gether.
    

Test 106

1. 
   ... are aimed at the avoidance of collisions ...
   
2. 
   ... the Islamic world which had acquired it from
   China.
   
3. 
   ... I perceive, sir, as I am in mine. ...
   
4. 
   ... gave us welcome and laid before us gourds ...
   
5. 
   ... some of which were beautifully fitted ...
   
6. 
   50 cents for his day's labour was not unreasona­
   ble, ...
   
7. 
   Gradually the table of contents, list of illustrations. ...
   
8. 
   ... of King Arthur's legendary knights of the Round
   Table.
   
9. 
   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck has never
   been forgotten, however.
   

_fc 10. ... making sure she knew how to knit and sew. ... k

11. 
    ... much better than ...
    
12. 
    ... she was not worthy to be my wife.
    
13. 
    ... and always prevent us from carrying them out
    
14. 
    ... lest his broad shoulders should collide with tht
    doorways.
    
15. 
    He did not know how she was dressed. ...
    

Test 107

1. 
   ... had prevented his eager eyes from approaching
   too near.
   
2. 
   ... and that any fellow would have done it.
   
3. 
   ... that few members of the animal kingdom ...
   
4. 
   Shortly before the United States entered the war ..
   
5. 
   He was evidently unused to wearing stiff collars.
   
6. 
   ... became known to all on board.
   
7. 
   .., and she looked him straight in the eyes ...
   
8. 
   I have been looking forward to meeting you ....
   
9. 
   ... by hearing it spoken of as a "lake".
   

10. 
    ... I am sure it must have been some adventure.
    
11. 
    ... we had only to wait for favourable weathei
    conditions.
    
12. 
    I wish father didn't have such bad luck ...
    
13. 
    ... Would you rather I didn't talk?
    
14. 
    ... how many acres were in wheat that year and
    how many in corn.
    
15. 
    ... that his walk was different from that of othei
    men.
    

Test 108

1. 
   ... congratulating them heartily on the beauty of the
   site ...
   
2. 
   Colleges seem to have been set down ...
   
3. 
   A house for sale looks wonderful in the summer
   sunshine, ...
   
4. 
   I objected strongly, but in the end ...
   
5. 
   ... we would have been denied entry ...
   

6. 
   ... this is the cause of various meteorological phe­
   nomena...
   
7. 
   Though Grasse has long been associated ,..
   
8. 
   ... not for himself. ...
   
9. 
   ... and the road to travel so long, ...
   

10. 
    ... if we knew all about everything, would it?
    
11. 
    Matthew was not used to deciding on the colours ...
    
12. 
    ... that no man had ever affected her before ...
    
13. 
    Few provincial cities anywhere ...
    
14. 
    ... There is nothing like it elsewhere in Ontario.
    

15....... or the twilight that precedes dawn.

Test 109

1. 
   Other arrests are being made today, ...
   
2. 
   There is no snow, or rain, ...
   
3. 
   Every morning she had coffee, orange mice. ...
   
4. 
   This time I reached in safety the farther side: ...
   
5. 
   ... a storm had burst in the night, ...
   
6. 
   Large flocks of wild geese ...
   
7. 
   A hard life has left deep wrinkles ...
   
8. 
   ... the underlying causes of its richness remain un­
   known.
   
9. 
   ... and I told her about missing school.
   

10....The water is carried to the fields ...

11. 
    Wouldn't it be nice if they did?
    
12. 
    ... is filled with beautiful truth. ...
    
13. 
    They gave us a great deal of advice ...
    
14. 
    If we could have taken off then. ...
    
15. 
    ... liberated from the modification of atoms con­
    tained in six drops ...
    

Test 110

1. 
   Founded in 1621. ...
   
2. 
   ... we planned to take off very early ...
   
3. 
   It surprised me to see them there...
   
4. 
   ... ever since the first European researchers set foot...
   

1. 
   Prime Minister John A. Macdonald ...
   
2. 
   ... the more visible is the human impact.
   
3. 
   ... finally, concluding I must have been asleep. ...
   
4. 
   ...although the snow lay some inches deep.
   
5. 
   It is cosmic rays that present ...
   

10. 
    Matthew's companion stopped talking. ...
    
11. 
    ... as if everybody must be looking at me and pitving mp
    
12. 
    ... which represent 90 percent of the world's plant
    families.
    
13. 
    Those rocky shores may turn out to be ...
    
14. 
    I tried to go to sleep. .,.
    
15. 
    ... We ought to be proud of her!
    

Test 111

1. 
   ... when there was least probability of having wind
   
2. 
   We gathered further data about the nature of cos­
   mic rays ...
   
3. 
   ... I gathered from him in this considerable tete-a-
   tete of ours.
   
4. 
   Should 1 go to study at Oxford, ...
   
5. 
   ... It was the first time I had seen it since October ]
   
6. 
   ... It was as keen as frozen steel.
   
7. 
   In this world of sand there live animal species that
   flourish ...
   
8. 
   Another few hours' sleep ...
   
9. 
   ... You could walk from one end to the other in ai
   hour.
   

10. 
    ... that looked so much like southern England's
    
11. 
    A great sand sea along Africa's South Atlantic
    coast. ...
    
12. 
    ... everybody outside Venice seems to ask.
    
13. 
    Was he to die of thirst and hunger ...
    
14. 
    ... treated us cheerfully, and in a friendly way.
    
15. 
    It is necessary that he (should) be there at 5 sharp
    

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