Uitgeverij Coutinho

Test your knowledge of the entire book by considering the following sentences and indicating which of them are grammatical and which are ungrammatical, with respect to the italicized element in each.

Always attracted by the life at sea, …
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
… he decided to join the navy.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
The cats' litter smelled foul, and the rabbit's hutch did so too.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
We rarely go anywhere now that I've lost my job.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Where there is no love, there is no hope.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Never there has been greater scepticism about European integration.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
As pilot of this aircraft, …
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
… I have to announce that we're losing the height.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Little Suzie is really growing up: now she can dress herself!
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Will you please all take your swimsuit off before entering the sauna?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
I'll bet it was the boys next door that broke the window.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
At the protest meeting there was spoken about blocking the motorway.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Everybody was told to stay in their own houses during the disturbances.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
We could easily lose this match, but of course I hope not.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
I heard the church bells ring, and Mary did so too.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
He said he was always short of money, but this can't be true, …
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
… since I have seen him pay for a meal at an expensive restaurant just yesterday.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
It was my children who persuaded me to give up.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Is that the man to which she's getting married?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Did you have some success with your ill-considered bet on that lame horse?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
At the Olympics, the Dutch …
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
… ran faster than the other nationalities.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
The children both confessed to having let down the teacher's tyres.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
There responded few people to my appeal.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
What did you think of that remark of William's?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Can you tell me who are coming to the conference next week?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
I hate to go where there is no light.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
I refuse to believe he's slimming: only yesterday I have seen him gorging himself at an ice cream saloon.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Nobody seemed to know what to do with themselves.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
When I stroked the man-eating tiger, everybody else felt free to do so too.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
It was her family who helped her all they could.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
The teacher may let us out early, but I expect not.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
You know, we might have both been killed right there!
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
I sensed that he was angry, and so did Lenny.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Only difficultly …
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
… I could accept that I had lost.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
So you had my car painted without my permission, had you?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
I am learning English …
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
… since six years.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Turn to page 24 and 25.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
The most people like sun-bathing.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
That dog of John is barking again.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Who's bike is that?
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Since I can run fast, I could just catch the last bus.
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical
Don't go near that cliff - you are warned!
1. grammatical
2. ungrammatical