Result Part III: Language and Grammar Awareness Your Score is: 90/90 - Excellent Answers in green show correct answers Answers in red show incorrect answers. (A) Complete the gaps Choose 1 word (from the choice of 3), which correctly matches the text context. Out of each of the 3 possible answers provided only 1 answer from each is correct: My father, as you know, was a sort of gentleman farmer in -shire; and I, by his express desire, succeeded him in the same quiet occupation, not very willingly, for ambition urged me to higher aims, and self-conceit assured me that, in disregarding its voice, I was burying my talent in the earth, and hiding my light under a bushel. My mother had done her utmost to persuade me that I was capable of great achievements; but my father, who thought ambition was the surest road to ruin, and change but another word for destruction, would listen to no scheme for bettering either my own condition, or that of my fellow mortals. He assured me it was all rubbish, and exhorted me, with his dying breath, to continue in the good old way, to follow his steps, and those of his father befor him, and let my highest ambition be to walk honestly trough the world, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, and to transmit the paternal acres to my children in, at least, as fluorishing a condition as he left them to me. Taken from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte (B) Grammar comprehension Fill the gaps: - 3 words have been misspelled in the last sentence of the text, find them and type them correctly: before through flourishing He assured me. - In this short sentence: the subject is He, the object is Me, the verb is assured. ... and let my highest ambition be to walk honestly through the world... - In this sentence: the superlative adjective is highest, the conjunction is and the preposition is through. (C) Terminology identification Connect the examples with their correct grammar term: to walk verb mother noun because conjunction get up phrasal verb sleeping gerund actually adverb through preposition (D) Tense Identification Match the sentences with their correct grammar tense terminology: I come from the U.S.A. I have never worked abroad. I am looking forward to seeing you soon. The problem is solved. I will see you soon. Lets go! If I were you, I would go to live abroad.
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