English Grammar: Adjectives and Verb Tenses

Practice quiz on English grammar including comparative and superlative adjectives, adjective order rules, and verb tenses (simple past, present, future, present continuous, present perfect)

20 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I'm ___ my garden.

  1. watering
  2. waters
  3. watered
  4. water
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

My brother will ___ money from me.

  1. borrow
  2. borowing
  3. borrowed
  4. borrows
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

She will ___ my breakfast in the morning.

  1. cook
  2. cooks
  3. cooking
  4. cooked
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

She will ___ my breakfast in the morning.

  1. cook
  2. cooks
  3. cooking
  4. cooked
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The manager was ___ the number of guests

  1. counted
  2. counting
  3. count
  4. counts
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Can you ___ the teacher the question?

  1. asking
  2. ask
  3. asked
  4. asks
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

He ___ his name on the paper.

  1. signing
  2. signs
  3. sign
  4. signed
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

We ___ for our trip to Europe.

  1. packing
  2. packs
  3. packed
  4. pack
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

They ___ in a play every year.

  1. act
  2. acts
  3. acting
  4. acted
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

She has ___ a hamburger for dinner.

  1. orders
  2. ordering
  3. ordered
  4. order
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

She ___ up early on her trip last week.

  1. wake
  2. waking
  3. woke
  4. wakes
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Those are probably the ________ curtains in the store.

  1. fancyest
  2. fanciest
  3. most fanciest
  4. fancier
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
  1. Uncle Carl is really ________ man.
  1. an old sweet
  2. a sweet, old
  3. an sweet old
  4. a sweet old
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
  1. The Karmen-Ghia used to be _________ sportscar.
  1. a German, fine
  2. a fine, German
  3. a fine German
  4. a German fine
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Everyone was home for the holidays. What could make for _________ Christmas than that?

  1. the merriest
  2. a merrier
  3. a merryer
  4. the marryer
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

They grew up in __________ house in Mexico City.

  1. a little comfortable
  2. a comfortable, little
  3. a little, comfortable
  4. a comfortable little
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Diehard is the _________ movie I've ever seen.

  1. that interesting new Japanese economics
  2. that Japanese interesting, new economics
  3. that interesting, new, Japanese, economics
  4. that Japanese, interesting new economics
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Of all the mechanics in the shop, Jerzy is surely _________.

  1. the less competent.
  2. the least competent.
  3. the competentest.
  4. the lesser competentest
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the fall, the valleys tend to be _________ than the hilltops.

  1. foggier
  2. more foggier
  3. foggy
  4. fog
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

My cold is definitely _______ this morning.

  1. bad
  2. worser
  3. worst
  4. worse