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a) My dog who is very fat eats six tins of Chum per day.
b) The black horse however carried the plough without any struggle.
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2. Insert a colon in the appropriate place in the sentence below.
I have three aims in life success (whatever the cost), a family and global travel.
Which sentence is the passive form of the sentence above? Tick one.
victory
fearless
lethargically
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6. Use the prepositions in the boxes to complete the sentences below.
from with at to
7. A semi-colon can be used to separate two main clauses that are related.
Insert a semi-colon in the correct place in the sentence below.
Looked at from one angle, Thor is a positive role-model viewed from a different
perspective, he’s a brutal Nordic god.
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8. Write the contraction of each pair of underlined words in the brackets
underneath.
Let us go to see the new Harry Potter film; it has been well reviewed.
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You should not be late or you will miss the opening titles.
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We are going to love it!
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9. Expand the noun into a noun phrase by adding words before and after the noun.
One has been done for you.
the pelican
the courage
The Government
10. Put a tick in each row to show the type of adverb.
beyond
often
yesterday
silently
inside
never
seldom
hastily
underneath
11.Complete this table of verbs and their infinitive forms. One has been done for
you.
we are
they went
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12. This sentence is written in the personal form.
Which sentence below is a correct impersonal form of the sentence? Tick one.
14. Rewrite the sentence below, changing the verbs to past tense.
The Black Prince brings chaos to the land and stands on the necks of his enemies.
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15. Put a tick in each row to show the type of pronoun underlined in each sentence.
16. This sentence is made up of two clauses: a main clause (MC) and a
subordinate clause (SC).
19. Circle the correct form of the verb in each set of brackets.
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20. Put a tick in each row to show the type of connective underlined in each
sentence.
Subordinating Co-ordinating
connective connective
She realised after seeing the CCTV footage that the robbery, really had happened.
She realised after seeing, the CCTV footage, that the robbery really had happened.
She realised, after seeing the CCTV footage, that the robbery really had happened.
She realised after, seeing the CCTV footage, that the robbery really had happened.
22. The noun phrase has been underlined in the sentence below.
Which combination of words does the noun phrase contain? Tick one.
23. Complete these word families. The first one has been done for you.
The bull elk’s carcass was ripped to pieces by the wolf pack.