Choose the verb that agrees with the subject: 'The committee ___ meeting in the hall this afternoon.'
Grammar Usage
Question · Easy
FANBOYS: the comma cheer
Short
Choose the correct tense: 'Last week Chanda ___ her cousin in Kitwe.'
In the sentence 'The eager learners listened attentively', the word 'attentively' is a:
Choose the correct article: 'She bought ___ umbrella at the market.'
Choose the correct preposition: 'The visitors arrived ___ Lusaka International Airport at noon.'
Choose the correct present simple form: 'Every morning the bus ___ at the school gate.'
Change into reported speech: Mwansa said, 'I am tired.'
Choose the verb that agrees: 'Neither the prefects nor the head girl ___ late today.'
Question · Medium
Choose the correct tense: 'By the time the teacher arrived, the learners ___ the exercise.'
Choose the correct passive form of 'The head teacher announced the results.'
Change the question into reported speech: She asked him, 'Where do you live?'
In 'Although it rained, we continued the match', the word 'Although' is a:
Choose the correct phrasal verb: 'The meeting was ___ because the storm flooded the road.'
Choose the correct verb: 'If it rains tomorrow, we ___ the sports day.'
Choose the correct determiner: '___ information you gave us was useful.'
Choose the verb that agrees: 'A number of learners ___ already submitted their essays.'
Question · Hard
Choose the correctly inverted sentence: 'Never before ___ such a crowded market in Choma.'
Change the command into reported speech: The teacher told us, 'Don't touch the chemicals.'
Choose the verb that agrees: 'Not only the captain but also the players ___ praised after the match.'
Choose the verb that agrees in formal Standard English: 'It is I who ___ responsible for the error.'
Choose the correct form: 'Tomorrow the class ___ the Kafue River.'
Choose the correct tense: 'She ___ in Lusaka since 2019.'
Choose the correct form to complete the sentence: '___ regularly improves your writing.'
Choose the correct preposition: 'He is good ___ explaining difficult ideas.'
Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'The woman ___ we met at the clinic is a nurse.'
Choose the correct phrasal verb: 'After the accident, the driver slowly ___ and asked where he was.'
Choose the correct verb: 'If I ___ the principal, I would introduce more reading time.'
Choose the tense that best fits: 'This time next week we ___ the English Language paper.'
Choose the correct article use: '___ Lake Tanganyika is one of Africa's deepest lakes.'
Choose the best reported form: She said to Mutale, 'Could you close the window?'
In 'The exhausted farmer leaned against the fence', the word 'exhausted' functions as a:
Choose the verb that agrees: 'The news from the clinic ___ encouraging.'
Which word is closest in meaning to 'silent' in 'The teacher asked the class to remain silent'?
Vocabulary Idiom
Which word is opposite in meaning to 'scarce'?
What does the idiom mean: 'The new prefect has her hands full'?
Identify the figure of speech: 'The classroom was a furnace in October.'
What does the idiom mean: 'After failing twice, he decided to turn over a new leaf'?
Identify the figure of speech: 'The Zambezi roared through the gorge.'
Identify the figure of speech: 'The striker was as brave as a lion.'
Choose the correct word: 'The school ___ welcomed the visiting choir.'
In 'The argument was flimsy and collapsed under questioning', 'flimsy' is closest in meaning to:
What does the idiom mean: 'Don't beat about the bush; tell us what happened.'?
Identify the figure of speech: 'The silence was deafening after the announcement.'
What does the idiom mean: 'She let the cat out of the bag about the surprise visit'?
In 'His remarks were caustic, and several listeners winced', 'caustic' is closest in meaning to:
Identify the figure of speech: 'The kettle hissed on the charcoal brazier.'
Identify the figure of speech: 'The Crown will announce the appointment next week.'
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