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English Grammar Test (Form 8^th)

1. Open the brackets using Present Perfect, Past Simple, Past Progressive, Future Simple:

1. Something …(fall) out of that window while I …(stand) under it.

2. When Jane…(have) her Saturday job at a flower shop she…(send) me flowers.

3.  If he...(not sleep)well, he’ll be always tired.

4. When I ...(be) short of money I ask my parents for help.

5. (You to see) Mary today?

6. He (to visit) that place last year.

(8 points)

1. Put the adjectives in an appropriate degree of comparison:

1. My sister speaks English (bad) than I do.

2. A bus is (fast) than a tram.

3. The (tall) trees in the world grow in California

4. Who is the (attentive) student in your group?

5. It is autumn. Every day the air becomes (cold), the leaves (yellow).

(6 points)

1. Form tag questions from the following sentences:

1.   It’s а lovely evening.

2.  The sportsman runs very fast.

3.   It was a wonderful game .

4.   You will come here again.

(4 points)

1. What parts of speech do the following affixes form? (nouns, adjectives)

1. - able/ - ible

2. im -, ir -, in -

3. - or, - er

4. – ful

(4 points)

1. Match the left column with the right one:

(5 points)

Keys:

I.

1. fell, was standing

2. had, sent

3. doesn’t sleep

4. am

5. Have you seen

6. visited

II.

1. worse

2. faster

3. the tallest

4. the most attentive

5. colder, yellower

III.

1. isn’t it?

2. doesn’t he?

3. wasn’t it?

4. won’t you?

IV.

1. adj.

2. adj.

3. n.

4. adj.

V.

1. a

2. d

3. b

4. c

5. e

Criterion of estimation:

«5» 25 – 27 points (95 – 100 %)

«4» 21 – 24 points (80 – 94 %)

«3» 17 - 23 points (65 – 93%)