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Modifiers
Perfect Tenses
Noun Clauses
Modals
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This article is used when we speak generically about a countable noun.
What is the indefinite article "a'
100
The following sentence is missing this important feature: "I was interested in seeing the green eyed, wide mouthed, short giant
What is a hyphen?
100
"I have been living in New York since 2001" can be rewritten with this tense and not change it's meaning.
What is the present perfect?
100
"Can you please tell me where you will be in 10 years?" is an example of this type of grammar.
What is embedded questions?
100
This modal is used to talk about ability. (present and past)
What is can (present)/could (past)?
200
This article is used when we speak about a specific and known uncountable noun
What is the definite article "the"
200
In the acronym OSAShCOM, the second O stands for this type of adjective
What is origin?
200
"Jim has been writing for a local newspaper" and "Jim writes for a local newspaper" mean exactly the same thing (yes/no)
What is no?
200
To ask politely about the location of the nearest train station you say this (use Could you...)
What is "could you please tell me where the nearest train station is?"
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This modal when used to talk about necessity has a different past form.
What is must?
300
This article is used to talk about specific non-count nouns and generic non-count and count nouns.
What is the zero article?
300
This word should actually be second to last in the following phrase: "a beautiful fat red-eyed Canadian green frog"
What is green?
300
"She will have been building her house for 20 years by the time she is 40" is an example of this tense.
What is the present perfect progressive
300
You say this to tell someone that Sally requested the salt from them.
What is "Sally asked you to pass the salt"?
300
This is the auxiliary verb we use most often (not always) to talk about modals in the past
What is "have/has"?
400
We use the article "the" to talk about these, even when the listener probably doesn't know which one we are talking about exactly.
What are public places?
400
In the sentence, "Welcome to the annual seventh marathon" this word is not in the right place
What is annual/seventh?
400
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." In the previous paragraph, this sentence should be fixed.
What is I watched C-beams glitter in the dark...?
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The woman asked how much are these flowers? This is the correct version of the sentence about (punctuation too)
What is The woman asked, "how much are these flowers" OR The woman asked how much these flowers were
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This is the modal you would use to advise someone about their past actions if you think they did not make the right decision about steeling the police car the previous night.
What is "should"?
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When we talk about these generically, even if they are unknown to the listener, we sometimes use the article "the"
What are musical instruments and inventions?
500
In the sentence, "the robber was wearing a black old wool coat" this word should come first
What is old?
500
Juan cut himself when the glass he was washing had broken in his hand. Tell us the correct version of this sentence.
What is "when the glass he was washing broke in his hand?"
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This is the direct way to say "Do you mind telling if you could direct me to the nearest bathroom please?"
What is "Where is the bathroom?"
500
This is the modal used to make a suggestion or possibility.
What is might?