Basic Grammar TABE || Solved Correctly.
1. Everyone in the bank-including the manager and the tellers, ran to the door when the fire
alarm rang.
A. tellers, ran
B. tellers: ran
C. tellers, had run
D. tellers-ran
E. tellers' ran" correct answers D
2. To no ones surprise, Joe didn't have his homework ready.
A. no ones surprise
B. noones surprise
C. no-ones surprise
D. no ones' surprise
E. no one's surprise correct answers E
3. If he would have read "The White Birds," he might have liked William Butler Yeats' poetry.
A. would have read
B. could have read
C. would of read
D. could of read
E. had read correct answers E
, 4. After the hurricane, uprooted trees were laying all over the ground.
A. were laying
B. lying
C. were lying
D. were laid
E. was laid correct answers C
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), the great transcendentalist philosopher, wrote in his essay
"Self-Reliance" of the need for an individual to develop his capacities.
A. essay "Self-Reliance"
B. essay, "Self-Reliance"
C. essay: Self-Reliance
D. essay, Self-Reliance
E. essay; "Self-Reliance" correct answers A
6. The recently built children's amusement park has been called "a boon to the community" by its
supporters and "an eyesore" by its harshest critics.
A. and "an eyesore" by its harshest
B. and, "an eyesore," by its harshest
C. and, an eyesore; by its harshest
D. and-an eyesore-by its' harshest
E. and-"an eyesore"-by its' harshest correct answers A
7. I always have trouble remembering the meaning of these two common verbs, affect (to
change" or "to influence") and effect ("to cause" or "to accomplish)."
1. Everyone in the bank-including the manager and the tellers, ran to the door when the fire
alarm rang.
A. tellers, ran
B. tellers: ran
C. tellers, had run
D. tellers-ran
E. tellers' ran" correct answers D
2. To no ones surprise, Joe didn't have his homework ready.
A. no ones surprise
B. noones surprise
C. no-ones surprise
D. no ones' surprise
E. no one's surprise correct answers E
3. If he would have read "The White Birds," he might have liked William Butler Yeats' poetry.
A. would have read
B. could have read
C. would of read
D. could of read
E. had read correct answers E
, 4. After the hurricane, uprooted trees were laying all over the ground.
A. were laying
B. lying
C. were lying
D. were laid
E. was laid correct answers C
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), the great transcendentalist philosopher, wrote in his essay
"Self-Reliance" of the need for an individual to develop his capacities.
A. essay "Self-Reliance"
B. essay, "Self-Reliance"
C. essay: Self-Reliance
D. essay, Self-Reliance
E. essay; "Self-Reliance" correct answers A
6. The recently built children's amusement park has been called "a boon to the community" by its
supporters and "an eyesore" by its harshest critics.
A. and "an eyesore" by its harshest
B. and, "an eyesore," by its harshest
C. and, an eyesore; by its harshest
D. and-an eyesore-by its' harshest
E. and-"an eyesore"-by its' harshest correct answers A
7. I always have trouble remembering the meaning of these two common verbs, affect (to
change" or "to influence") and effect ("to cause" or "to accomplish)."
