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WorksheetsUsing verbs correctly/quick test
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 11mins
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.
Which of the following sentences is in the passive voice?
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
A dentist invented the electric chair.
You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
You should use the active voice whenever possible for all the following reasons except
It creates a sentence that is direct and to the point.
It creates a shorter sentence and is thus easier to read.
It emphasizes the receiver of the action rather than the doer of the action.
It emphasizes the doer of the action rather than the receiver of the action.
