Thursday, 28 November 2024

New Dress questions

1) She went straight to the far end of the room.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct framing of a wh-question to get the underlined words as answer)
1 point
How did she go straight?
When did she go straight?
How long did she go straight?
Where did she go straight?
2) What a hideous new dress!

(Choose the alternative showing the correct transformation of this sentence into assertive sentence)

1 point
New dress is very hideous.
New dress is hideous.
New dress is a very hideous.
New dress is not hideous.

3) She could not be fashionable.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct replacement for ‘could not’)
1 point
She was able to be fashionable.
She was not able to be fashionable.
She was fashionable.
She was not fashionable.

4) She felt like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct transformation of this sentence into complex sentence)
1 point
Though she felt like a dressmaker’s dummy, she was standing there.
She felt like a dressmaker’s dummy and stood there.
When she was standing there, she felt like a dressmaker’s dummy.
When she stood there, she felt like a dressmaker’s dummy.

5) We are all like flies trying to crawl over the edge of the saucer.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct use of ‘who’)
1 point
We are all like flies who tried to crawl over the edge of the saucer.
We are all like flies who were trying to crawl over the edge of the saucer.
We are all like flies trying who crawl over the edge of the saucer.
We, who are all like flies, trying to crawl over the edge of the saucer

6) But she could not see them like that, not other people.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct use of ‘neither ---nor’)

1 point
But she neither could see them like that, nor other people.
But she could neither see them like that, nor other people.
But she could either see them like that, or other people.
But could she neither see them like that, nor other people.
7) Miss Milan’s little workroom was really terribly hot, stuffy, sordid.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct transformation of this sentence into exclamatory sentence)
1 point
What a terribly hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Mian’s little workroom was!
Who terribly hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Mian’s little workroom was!
How terribly hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Mian’s little workroom was!
How much terribly hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Mian’s little workroom was!
8) She faced herself straight in the glass; she pecked at her left shoulder.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct use of ‘not only------but also)
1 point
Not only she faced herself straight in the glass but also she pecked at her left shoulder.
She not only faced herself straight in the glass but also pecked at her left shoulder.
She faced herself not only straight in the glass but also pecked at her left shoulder.
She faced herself straight not only in the glass but also pecked at her left shoulder.
9) And now the whole thing had vanished.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct tense used here)
1 point
Past simple tense.
Past perfect continuous tense.
Past perfect tense.
Past future tense.
10) Could Mabel tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September?

(Choose the alternative showing the correct transformation of this sentence into assertive)
1 point
Mabel could tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September.
Mabel could not tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September.
Mabel does not tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September.
Mabel did not tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September.

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