GRADE 12 - TEST GRAMMAR SEMESTER 1

1.             ______broken several world records in swimming.

• She is said to have   

• She is said that she has

• It is said to have  

• People say she had

Why did Tom keep making jokes about me? – I don’t enjoy ---------at

• to be laughed  

• being laughed

• laughing  

• be laughed

When the assembly line -----------due to a broken machine, the night shift had to work overtime to ensure the order was fulfilled

• interrupts        

• was interrupted

• be interrupted     

• to interrupt

By the end of next year, George -----------English for two years

• will learn                       

• has learned

• will have learned       

• would learn

I couldn’t cut the grass because the lawn mower -------- a few days previously

• had broken down                

• broke down

• breaks down       

• has been broken

If I _______my passport, I’ll be in trouble

• lost                      

• will lose

• Lose

• would lose

If you hadn’t watched that late movie last night, you-------- sleepy now

• wouldn’t be         

• wouldn’t have been

• might not have been                                   

• wouldn’t have been being 

   John asked me ------------ in English

• what that word means

• what did this word mean

• what does this word mean

• what that word meant

My computer,  ---------------  mouse doesn't work, cannot be used now

• while

• which

• because

• whose

He advised them -------------- in class

• to not talk

• not to talk

• don’t talk

• to talk not