Entrance Ticket

Change the tense.

1. The dog is barking at the postman. (Simple Present)

• 1. The dog is bark at the postman.

• 1. The dog barks at the postman.

• 1. The dog was barking at the postman.

• 1. The dog barking at the postman.

Change the tense.

I ate my lunch along with my friends. (Simple Future)

• I ate my lunch along with my friends.

• I eats my lunch along with my friends.

• I am eating my lunch along with my friends.

• I will eat my lunch along with my friends.

Select the correct sentence on future perfect.

• I will be reading this book.

• I go to read the book tomorrow.

• I will have read this book by tomorrow.

• I won’t reading the book tomorrow

Change the following active voice sentence to passive voice.

The teacher teaches the students.

• The students are being taught by the teacher.

• The students are taught by the teacher.

• The students are taught by the teaching teacher.

• The students are teaching by the teacher.

Change the following passive voice sentence to active voice.

The cake was baked by Mary.

• Mary baked the cake.

• Mary was baking the cake.

• Mary was baked the cake.

• The cake was baking by Mary.

Choose the sentence that uses informal language.

• It clearly stated to arrive by 6pm.

• Salvation Army received the donated gifts.

• Should you have a problem, please feel free to call.

• We'd all enjoyed picking out toys for the Angel Tree kids.

Choose the formal sentence.

• A lot of good people died while making this assignment. 

• Several ethical people died while making this assignment.

Complete the sentence using the appropriate Conditional term .

If the water ..., it means the food is nearly ready.

• boils

• boil

• will boil

• would have boiled

Complete the sentence using the appropriate Conditional term.

If you had told me it was a surprise party, I ... anything to Dave.

• would not have say

• would not say

• would not have said

• would not have been said

Change the direct speech to indirect speech.

Debora said, “I have completed the task”.

• Debora said that she has completed the task.

• Debora said that she had completed the task.

• Debora said that she have completed the task.

• Debora said that she would complete the task.

Answer explanation

When converting direct speech to indirect speech, if the reporting verb (said) is in past tense, then the verb in the reported speech also needs to change to past tense - so 'have completed' becomes had completed.