语法测试A

英语语法测试A

姓名班级学号批改人及班级I Reading analysis.There are five long sentences (S1 to S5) with two questions for each. Answer the questions.

S1

It all seems rather silly now, how she took every little thing he ever said and did—every tiny bit of attention he ever paid her—and molded it into a great unspoken love, a bright splendid future filled with road trips and hotel rooms and dinner parties and kids and a sprawling garden and a pet pug and maybe even a bunny.

1.What is the predicative verb of this sentence?

2.What is the predicative verb of the fifth clause in this sentence?

S2

As she grew older, she would learn about the deep intricacies of human relationships: the little everyday disappointments, the constant battle between forgiveness and giving up, the many, many shades of grey, the hate that grows and grows at the slightest prodding, and all the compromises you have to make for the people you love and the people who love you

3.What is the predicative verb of this sentence?

4.What is the predicative verb of the fourth clause in this sentence?

S3

More than anything, she believed in the power of proximity, in the magic that happens when you manage to integrate someone slowly and steadily into your daily routine as proximity was exactly what she prayed for with closed eyes and clasped hands every night before she went to bed.

5.What is the predicative verb of this sentence?

6.What is the one semi-modal in this sentence?

S4

She should have met him years ago, when she was much younger—at 20 or 21 or 22, and she would have found his recklessness endearing, his carelessness charming, his affection flattering, his adoration in no way strange or undeserved, and he would have been exactly the guy she wanted and needed in her life back then.

7.What is the objective complement of the second SVOC structure in this

sentence?

8.What is the head word of the subject complement in this third coordinate

clause in this sentence?

S5

Standing alone in front of an ice cream cart on a hot, humid summer day, she thought of the love other people so tragically took for granted, and she wondered if, like her, other people also made bargains with God, grand promises of selflessness and devotion if only He would give them someone to love, and she wondered at what point these promises were forgotten, and what the punishment was, and she’d like to think there were consequences, because life is always fair in the end, but perhaps there were none and perhaps it isn’t.

9.What is the –ing participle working as an adverbial in this sentence?

10.What is the single head word in the appositive in this sentence?

II. Multiple choice questions.There are ten sentences from the following fifteen considered in the textbook to be comparatively informal. Pick them out, preferably in alphabetical order.

A.Neither he nor his wife have arrived.

B.Alice as well as her sister were there.

C.My aunt, along with my three cousins, are coming to my house tonight.

D.The captain, together with half a dozen sailors, were taken prisoners.

E.The headmaster with the rest of the staff was having a heated discussion.

F.No one except his colleagues were with him.

G.One in ten students have failed the exams.

H.One out of twenty was badly damaged.

I.Everyone talk at his top voice.

J.She is a woman whom people believe may be the president of the company some day.

K.Pat and myself are writing a novel.

L.If you want to see the ruins, you must go on foot.

M.How do you like that?

N.I was hearing John had got a job.

O.I don’t mind his being invited.