ESL Blues
Error Finder Quiz 5b
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1. Choose the best possible response:
A: Are your friends here tonight?
B: Yes. _____, near the stage.
a) That's they there
b) Those are they there
c) This is them there
d) That's them there
e)
None of the above
2. Choose the best possible response:
A: Why are the police here? What _____ ?
B: It's the usual reason. Someone called and said there's a bomb here.
a) hell happened
b) the hell's happening
c) the hell happens
d)
None of the above
3. Choose the best possible response:
I never talk at the dinner table when my mouth is full, but my father _____. Yet he knows it's not polite.
a) talk
b) does
c) doesn't
d)
None of the above
4. Choose the best possible response:
Why don't the people of this country _____ respect their government?
a) not
b) don't
c) don't have
d) have
e)
None of the above
5. Choose the best possible response:
I think good manners are not as important today _____ they were in the past.
a) as
b) than
c) that
d)
All of the above
6. Choose the best possible response:
Many Americans only get two weeks of vacation _____ year. Europeans get a lot more.
a) (nothing)
b) by
c) in
d) an
e)
None of the above
7. Choose the best possible response:
I'm looking for Jane. Do you know where _____ ?
a) she's
b) is she
c)
Neither of the above
8. Choose the best possible response:
Our brother hurt himself, so my sister and I took him to the hospital and waited to take him home. _____ that time, each of us played games on our phones.
a) For
b) During
c)
Both of the above
9. Choose the best possible response:
There's nothing in this crazy life that ever _____ me.
a) is bothering
b) bothers
c)
Both of the above
10. Choose the best possible response:
It was half time, and they were two goals ahead of us. I thought there was no way we could win, and _____ we did.
a) so
b) furthermore
c) besides
d) yet
e)
None of the above
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