Know Your Own Language?
So you speak English as a native but how much do you know about how it's put together and what are the difficult things you take for granted?
- 1.Which of the following is a verb?
- A.
Excess
- B.
Excessive
- C.
Exceed
- 2.Which of the following is not an adverb?
- A.
Friendly
- B.
Happily
- C.
Hardly
- 3.What does not count as a phrasal verb?
- A.
A verb plus an adverb
- B.
A verb plus one or two prepositions
- C.
Any verb in a sentence or part of a sentence (a clause)
- 4.Which of the following contains a phrasal verb?
- A.
He is sitting on the table.
- B.
He sat up when she walked in.
- 5.Which of the following contains a phrasal verb?
- A.
He went up the stairs talking loudly.
- B.
He went on talking loudly.
- 6.Which of the following contains a phrasal verb?
- A.
They got together in Spring and were engaged by Autumn.
- B.
I’m going to the shops. Do you want to go together?
- 7.How many phrasal verbs are there in English?
- A.
Hundreds
- B.
Thousands
- C.
It depends how you count them
- 8.Phrasal verbs …
- A.
Are a more formal way to express something.
- B.
Are a more informal way to express something.
- C.
Can be substituted with stand alone verbs.
- D.
Can have only one or two meanings.
- E.
Can have more than eight meanings.
- F.
Are easy for foreigners to learn and understand.
- 9.Why are phrasal verbs so difficult for foreigners?
- 10.How many meanings are there for “to turn up”?
- A.
2
- B.
3
- C.
5
- 11.Can you think of all of them?
- 12.Can you think of opposites for all of them?
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