English Grammar for the Utterly Confused - Laurie Rozakis 2003
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Chapter 5 Agreement: Matching Sentence Parts
Part 2 Usage and Abusage
True-False Questions
1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T 11. F 12. T 13. T 14. F 15. F 16. T 17. F 18. T 19. T 20. T 21. F 22. T 23. F 24. T 25. T 26. T 27. F 28. T 29. T 30. T 31. F 32. T 33. F 34. T 35. F
Completion Questions
1. is 2. are 3. ends 4. was 5. is 6. is 7. is 8. made 9. is 10. depict 11. drive 12. is, buy 13. quit 14. plays 15. open 16. gets 17. begins 18. takes 19. were 20. means 21. float 22. begins 23. walk 24. beep 25. rhymes
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. a 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. b 7. a 8. d 9. c 10. d
Further Exercises
1. Two people left a 15-mile-long-trail of doughnuts after they took a donut truck from a parking lot and fled, police said Thursday. The truck was parked at a convenience store with its rear doors open and its engine running while a deliveryman carried doughnuts inside, said a Slidell police spokesman. Two suspects hopped in the truck and sped off to the nearby town of Lacombe, with doughnuts spilling out along the way, he said. They abandoned the truck when they were spotted by police responding to reports of a dangerous driver who was losing his doughnuts. A passenger was captured, but the driver, whose name was not released, ran away.
Their motive for taking the truck filled with donuts was unclear.
“I don’t know if it was a need for transportation or if they just had the munchies,” the police said.
2. A wife is complaining about her husband spending all his time at the local tavern, so one night he takes her along with him.
“What’ll ya have?” he asks.
“Oh, I don’t know. The same as you, I suppose,” she replies.
So the husband orders a couple of Jack Daniels and gulps his down in one go.
His wife watches him, then takes a sip from her glass and immediately spits it out. “Yuck, it tastes awful, worse than awful!” she splutters. “I don’t know how you can drink this stuff!”
“Well, there you go,” cries the husband. “And you think I’m out enjoying myself every night!”