Task 1. Paraphrase the sentences using the possessive case where possible.

TEST in ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Task 1. Paraphrase the sentences using the possessive case where possible.

1. The beauty of Ireland is really breathtaking. 2. The coats of the children need cleaning. 3. The cover of the book is very bright. 4. The policy of the company is still not clear to me. 5. The construction of the new metro line has started. 6. The TV programmes of last night were very interesting. 7. I was shocked by the opinion of Bess. 8. The children had a holiday for a week. 9. We need to paint the roof of the house. 10. The back of the chair was too low.

Task 2. Read the story about a silly mistake and decide if a word needs to go in the space. If a word is missing, write the word. If no word is missing, write X.

This is also a true story. It shows how X plans can sometimes go wrong and how (1) … people can make silly mistakes.This too happened quite (2) … long time ago in (3) … 1979, in fact. The scene was (4) … old people's home in (5) … small town in (6) … north of England called (7) … Otley. The owners of the home wanted to put (8) … fence around it to make it more private. The work began soon after (9) … Christmas when (10) … workmen arrived in (11) … lorry with planks of wood which they put up around the building. 'It was (12) … very nice fence,' said (13) … of the old people. But there was (14) … problem. The workmen forgot to leave a gap for the lorry to drive out through. They had to come back the next day to knock down part of (15) … fence. '(16) … silly mistake!' said another resident. 'It was (17) so … funny we had to laugh. In fact it was (18) … most fun we've had for a long time.'

Task 3. Write the headlines of the articles in this month's edition of 'Holiday', a travel magazine.

? walk / along / Princes Street A walk along Princes Street

? holiday / in / Bahamas A holiday in the Bahamas

1 day / at / Blenheim Palace 2 train journey / in / North Wales 3 tour / of / White House 4 beach / on / Riviera 5 shopping trip / to / Harrods 6 small town / in / France

7 trip / across / Severn Bridge 8 walk / around / Lake Windermere 9 visit / to / Tower Bridge 10 journey / across / Rockies 11 look / around / National Gallery 12 boat trip / along / Oxford Canal

Task 4. Give degrees of comparison of the following words if possible:

I. angry, brave, convenient, dead, final, narrow, perfect, Persian, square, important, yellow, unique, little.

II. absent-minded, easy-going, good-natured, high-heeled, much-spoken, narrow-minded, old-fashioned.

III. Badly, carefully, early, far, fast, frequently, hard, late, often, patiently, soon, well, willingly.

Task 5. Write the following numbers in words

1) dates: 16.11.1705, 31.12.1084, 02.05.202

2) common and decimal fractions: 1/3; 9/10; 18/1000; 4 6/5; 7.05; 0.2; 8.0001; 1.422.

3) telephone numbers: 110091; 28547.

4) 9²; 6³; 4⁴¹; 20%; 1/6%; 0.7%; $ 598.320; $4 011.64

Task 6. Complete the text. Write the missing words. Use one word only in each space.

It was on 20 September 1973 that Bobby Riggs met Billie Jean King on the tennis court. Of all the tennis matches until then, this was probably the (1) … that attracted the most attention. Riggs had once been a champion, but at 55 he was getting rather old for top-class tennis. But he considered (2) … a better player than any woman. In fact, he thought women should go home and find (3) … useful to do in the kitchen. Billie Jean King, on the other hand, was a 29-year-old star of women's tennis and a feminist. Riggs thought that (4) … would be a good idea to play King. He was sure he could beat (5) …. King agreed to play. (6) … was a lot of interest in the match, and more or less (7) … in the country was looking forward to (8) …. On the night of the match, (9) … were over 30,000 people in the Houston Astrodrome. When Riggs and King came face to face with (10) … other, they had 50 million people watching (11) … on TV. The match didn't work out for Riggs, because Billie Jean King defeated (12) …, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

Task 12. Complete the following sentences using the suitable mood of verb.

I. It snowed all day otherwise.... 2. We would join you.... 3. If our building were better located,.... 4. Henry wouldn't have said that.... 5. If Alison had found time,.... 6. But for the hint.... 7. If my father were there,.... 8. The sea was stormy otherwise.... 9. But for the dense fog.... 10. If there were no television,....

TEST in ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Task 1. Paraphrase the sentences using the possessive case where possible.

1. The beauty of Ireland is really breathtaking. 2. The coats of the children need cleaning. 3. The cover of the book is very bright. 4. The policy of the company is still not clear to me. 5. The construction of the new metro line has started. 6. The TV programmes of last night were very interesting. 7. I was shocked by the opinion of Bess. 8. The children had a holiday for a week. 9. We need to paint the roof of the house. 10. The back of the chair was too low.