Elementary Grammar MCQ Test With Answers + PDF Exercise 19

This is the 19th of 30 elementary level grammar tests. This test in this set comprises 20 multiple choice questions of elementary English grammar. The formats of the tests are similar and the level gradually increases.

Elementary Grammar Test 19

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Question 1

Choose the correct answer. Only one answer is correct.

A	Go here to us!
B	Go there to they!
C	Come there to we!
D	Come here to us!

Question 1 Explanation:

We use come and here for movement towards the speaker. After to we use us, not we: Come here to us!

Question 2

How _____ telephone to England?

A	do I
B	can
C	I do
D	to

Question 2 Explanation:

A question with how needs a helping verb and a subject: How do I telephone …? Not I do, because the helping verb comes before the subject in a question.

Question 3

This is _____.

A	three question
B	the question three
C	question tree
D	question three

Question 3 Explanation:

With a number for a name, the word comes first and the number after, with no the: question three, page ten, room five.

Question 4

Jack _____ football on Saturday afternoon.

A	looks
B	locks
C	washes
D	watches

Question 4 Explanation:

We watch football on TV or at a match. Washes looks similar but means cleaning with water.

Question 5

_____ live in the town.

A	Somebody
B	Anybody
C	Some people
D	Any people

Question 5 Explanation:

The verb is live (not lives), so the subject must be plural: Some people live … We use some in positive sentences. Not Somebody, because somebody needs lives.

Question 6

Did you go to Ireland last year?

A	No, I’ve never been to Ireland.
B	No, here I have never gone.
C	No, I haven’t gone to Ireland.
D	No, I did never go there.

Question 6 Explanation:

To talk about your whole life up to now, we say I've never been to a place. Not I did never go, because we don't use did never in English.

Question 7

Molly hasn’t got your money. Jack hasn’t got _____.

A	it, too.
B	them, too.
C	it, either.
D	them, either.

Question 7 Explanation:

Money is uncountable, so we use it. In negative sentences we say either, not too: Jack hasn't got it, either.

Question 8

Bill and I _____ good as you.

A	are as
B	am as
C	as
D	we’re as

Question 8 Explanation:

Bill and I means we, so the verb is are. To compare two things that are the same, we use as … as: are as good as you. Not we're as, because the sentence already has a subject.

Question 9

Mary’s here. She’s just _____.

A	gone
B	been
C	got
D	come

Question 9 Explanation:

Mary is here now, so she has arrived: She's just come. Not gone, because gone means she is not here.

Question 10

Jeremy is the man _____.

A	of the long legs
B	of the tall legs
C	with the long legs
D	with the tall legs

Question 10 Explanation:

We use with to describe what someone has: the man with the long legs. Legs are long, not tall; people are tall.

Question 11

Fred’s _____ Charles.

A	much better that
B	much better than
C	very better that
D	very better than

Question 11 Explanation:

After a comparative we use than: better than. To make it stronger we say much better, not very better.

Question 12

Are my books on the table?

No, there _____ on the table.

A	aren’t anything
B	isn’t anything
C	aren’t something
D	isn't something

Question 12 Explanation:

Anything is singular, so we say there isn't. In negative sentences we use anything, not something: There isn't anything on the table.

Question 13

Have you got some brown eggs?

No, but I’ve got _____.

A	any white ones
B	some white ones
C	some white one
D	any white one

Question 13 Explanation:

In positive sentences we use some. Eggs is plural, so we say ones: I've got some white ones.

Question 14

Whose is the table?

It’s _____.

A	of us
B	to us
C	ours
D	our

Question 14 Explanation:

Without a noun after it, we use ours: It's ours. Our must have a noun after it: It's our table.

Question 15

Choose the correct answer. Only one answer is correct.

A	How old are you?
B	How many years are you?
C	How old you are?
D	What age do you have?

Question 15 Explanation:

In English we ask about age with How old are you? Not How old you are?, because in a question the verb comes before you.

Question 16

There wasn’t _____ on the bus.

A	no person
B	nobody
C	someone
D	anyone

Question 16 Explanation:

In negative sentences we use anyone: There wasn't anyone on the bus. Not nobody, because wasn't is already negative, and English doesn't use two negatives.

Question 17

Jim is _____ boy in the class.

A	the smaller
B	smaller
C	the smallest
D	smallest

Question 17 Explanation:

We compare Jim with all the boys in the class, so we use the + -est: the smallest.

Question 18

Margaret is the girl _____.

A	between my brother
B	at the back
C	on the tree
D	at the street

Question 18 Explanation:

At the back means in the part furthest from the front: the girl at the back of the room. We say in the street and in the tree, not at the street or on the tree.

Question 19

What time _____ dinner?