Using verbs correctly/quick test

There are four basic types of verbs:

• Action verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases

• Helping verbs, action verbs, gerunds, participles

• Helping verbs, verb phrases, active verbs, passive verbs

• Action verbs, normal verbs, regular verbs, irregular verbs

When applied to verbs, the word tense indicates

• How many subjects act or receive the action

• Who or what experiences the action

• When the action takes place: past, present, or future

• The attitude expressed toward the action

To show the future tense, English uses the helping verb

• Has

• Have

• Are

• Will

The past participle forms all the following tenses except

• Future perfect

• The past perfect

• Present perfect

• The active voice

The past tense of the verb to give is

• gived

• gave

• have given

• gaved

The present participle of to lie (to be in a horizontal position) is

• Lying

• Lay

• Have lain

• Lie

The past tense of the verb to freeze is

• freezed

• have groze

• froze

• frozed

The past participle of the verb to write is

• writing

• written

• wrote

• writed

The verb ”to be” includes all the following principal parts except

• Being, was

• Has, have

• Been, am

• Are, is

Which of the following sentences is in the active voice?

• Plans for an assisted-living center were revealed by the city council at yesterday’s meeting.

• The package was opened by my cousin Louie.

• At noon, the gates to the stadium were finally opened.

• A snail can sleep for three years.