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IBA BBA ADMISSION TEST

ENGLISH LECTURE SHEET 4

REVIEW TEST

Identify one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Then circle the letter that corresponds to the answer you have chosen.
1. (B) correct form: their
2. (C) correct form: his
3. (B) correct form: that
4. (C) correct form: that
5. (B) correct form: his own

Choose the best answer:


6. (D) that
7. (B) I
8. (C) whom
9. (D) whomever
10. (C) whose
11. (A) his
12. (B) each other
13. (B) one’s
14. (D) have
15. (A) is

Identify the sentences below as CORRECT (C) OR INCORRECT (I).


1. INCORRECT
Correct: My cousin, who keeps track of fashion trends, says the girls are wearing shorter skirts
this fall.
2. CORRECT
3. CORRECT
4. INCOORECT
Correct: Maureen uses a memory typewriter-printer, a computer, a laser printer, and a multiple-
function telephone that has created some confusion.
5. INCORRECT
Correct: Doreen is using a toothbrush to clean the grout between the bathroom tiles, but the
toothbrush/the grout is old.
6. CORRECT
7. INCORRECT
Correct: Harry and Rich will always remember Harry’s/Rich’s birthday celebrations.
8. INCORRECT
Correct: If the coiled wire inside a regular light bulb were spread out, the wire would be about
two feet long.
9. CORRECT
10. INCORRECT
Correct: Tailors recommend that suit pants for men be just long enough so that the men’s socks
don't show when they walk.

Fill in the following blanks with the right word from the options below.
1. (E) complacency
2. (A) debunked
3. (B) corroborated
4. (B) debilitating
5. (B) conjecture

Exercise 1: Choose either the simple present or the present progressive form for the verbs in
parentheses.
1. play
2. understands
3. ends
4. goes
5. needs
6. is wearing
7. looks
8. begins
9. make
10. are making

Exercise 2: Choose the correct form of the verb from parentheses.


1. smells
2. goes
3. is washing
4. goes
5. phones
6. are going
7. believe
8. remember

Exercise 3: Choose the correct form of the verb from parentheses.


1. was reading
2. called
3. was watching
4. arrived
5. was listening
6. bought
7. opened
8. was going

Exercise 4: Select either the past simple or the past perfect form for the verbs in parentheses.
1. felt, had eaten
2. had examined, had
3. called, had gone
4. had finished, came
5. threw, had read
6. had spent, asked
7. gave, had corrected
8. had risen, started

Exercise 5: Use correct future tense of the verbs in parentheses.


1. will have finished
2. arrives
3. will be living
4. will leave
5. will have studied/ will have been studying
6. will buy
7. will come
8. will have played/ will have been playing

Exercise 6: Most of the sentences contain one mistake. Write CORRECT (C) or INCORRECT (I). Correct
mistakes.
1. INCORRECT
Correct: The coffee smells wonderful.
2. CORRECT
3. INCORRECT
Correct: The ship sank because the engineer didn’t call for help until it was already sinking.
4. CORRECT
5. INCORRECT
Correct: How is Jennifer? Has her health improved?
6. INCORRECT
Correct: You’re quite right. I completely agree with you.
7. INCORRECT
Correct: What did you do after you had left school?
8. CORRECT
9. INCORRECT
Correct: I can’t imagine why you believed all those rumors.
10. INCORRECT
Correct: Martin was looking forward to a peaceful weekend when his brother arrived with all his
friends from the football club.
11. CORRECT
12. INCORRECT
Correct: Oh, I’m sorry, I’ve spilt some tea. Where do you keep the paper towels?

TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT

Use the present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect or the past perfect continuous tense
of the verbs given in the parentheses.
1. has studied/ has been studying
2. had left
3. has been
4. had prepared
5. have known
6. had been working
7. has made (it can ALSO be ‘‘made’’)
8. has written

Choose the simple or progressive form of the verb.


1. buys
2. was looking
3. broke
4. was thinking
5. thought
6. bought
7. are being
8. have seen
9. will you be staying
10. have arrived

Write the form of the verb specified in parentheses.


1. had bought
2. had forgotten
3. will have driven
4. had won
5. have measured
6. had learned
7. will have spent
8. has taken
9. will have built
10. has inspired

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