Grammar, Word Order, Punctuation Diagnostic Test With Answers 11

This is a play on words. In the first sentence, get means 'buy' or 'obtain': you can't buy it in this town. The second Get it? is an informal tag meaning Do you understand? The speaker checks whether the listener has understood the point or the joke.

A present participle before a noun describes what the noun is doing. Breaking news is news that is breaking, which means news that is happening right now. A gerund before a noun shows purpose or use instead: a swimming pool is a pool for swimming, not a pool that swims. Not Both, because 'breaking news' does not mean 'news for breaking', so the gerund reading does not work.

Milk is an uncountable noun, so it takes a singular verb even after all: All the milk has gone sour. Compare a plural countable noun: All the eggs have gone bad. Not have, because 'all' does not make an uncountable noun plural.

Do can be placed before an imperative to make it more emphatic or insistent. This works with be too: Do be serious, Do be careful, Do sit down. The sentence is correct, though it sounds rather formal or old-fashioned in modern speech.

In this sentence, elected is an adjective describing his status: in 1027 he was an emperor who had been elected. The date tells us when he was emperor, not when the election took place. The election may have happened in 1027 or in an earlier year, so both A and B are possible. Compare The elected president in 2010 was X: he may have been elected in 2008.