Quiz 2


For each sentence given, check the box to say whether the underlined word is

(Those are the only possibilities. Some auxiliaries have other forms too, but none of those forms appear underlined here.)



 

 

primary

secondary

 

 

pres

3sg

pret

g-pt

p-pt

pl-f

1

The professor gets very angry if anyone cheats on a quiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Actor Christopher Reeve has died at the age of 52.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

There isn’t one of us here who doesn't like NASCAR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

Judge Luciano Storaci threw out the case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

Public decency was not offended; the door was closed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

Having no one else to turn to, he talked to his mother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

What I can’t understand is why she didn’t just say so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

I have often come round and helped you out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

Auxiliary verbs are the ones that invert in interrogatives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

She shed ten pounds because her doctor said she had to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

That sort of thing has never interested me much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

I was wondering if you’d like to go for coffee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

It sort of went “Boing!” and stopped working.

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

I’ve always wanted to own a Rolls Royce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

You borrowed my pen and broke it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

17

This was no accident; this man has been shot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

18

Believe me, this hurts me more than it hurts you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

I told them lots of times but nobody would believe me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

20

He lay on his side for a while because it hurt less.