HESI A2 ENGLISH GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY 74+ (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS) |A GRADE GUARANTEE

Part I English Grammar 1. Elaine promised to bring the camera at the mall yesterday. a. by me b. with me c. at me d. to me D The preposition “to” is correct. “To” here means give. 1. Last night, he the sleeping bag down beside my mattress. a. lay b. laid c. lain d. has laid A “Lie” means to recline, and does not take an object. “lay” means to place and does take an object. 2. I would have bought the shirt for you if . a. I had known you liked it. b. I have known you liked it. c. I would know you liked it. d. I know you liked it. A Past unreal conditional. Takes the form, [If ... Past Perfect ..., ... would have + past participle ... ] 3. Many believers still hope proof of the existence of ghosts. a. two find b. to find c. to found d. to have been found B This sentence is in the present tense, so “to find” is correct. Select the correct word or phrase for the blank. 4. All of the people at the school, including the teachers and were glad when summerbreak came. a. students: b. students, c. students; d. students B The comma separates a phrase. 5. To , Anne was on time for her math class. a. everybody‟s surprise b. every body‟s surprise c. everybodys surprise d. everybodys‟ surprise A Possessive pronouns ending in s take an apostrophe before the „s‟: one‟s; everyone‟s; somebody‟s, nobody else‟s, etc. 6. If he the textbook like he was supposed to, he would have known what was on the test. a. will have read b. shouldn‟t have read c. would have read d. had read D When talking about something that didn‟t happen in the past, use the past perfect (if I had done). 7. Following the tornado, telephone poles all over the street. a. laid b. lied c. were lying d. were laying C “Lie” means to recline, and does not take an object. “Lay” means to place and does take an object. Peter lay the books on the table (the books are the direct object), or the telephone poles were lying on the road (no direct object). 8. In Edgar Allen Poe‟s Edgar Allen Poe describes a man with a guilty conscience. a. short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” b. short story The Tell-Tale Heart, c. short story, The Tell-Tale Heart d. short story. “the Tell-Tale Heart,” A Titles of short stories are enclosed in quotation marks. 9. Billboards are considered an important part of advertising for big business, ………….by their critics. a. but, an eyesore; b. but, “ an eyesore,” c. but an eyesore d. but-an eyesoreC No additional punctuation is required here. 10. I can never remember how to use those two common words, “sell,” meaning to trade a product for money, or meaning an event where products are traded for less money than usual. a. saleb. “sale,” c. “sale d. “to sale,” B Here the word “sale” is used as a “word” and not as a word in the sentence, so quotation marks are used. 11. The class just finished reading a short story byCarl Stephenson about a plantation owner‟s battle with army ants. a. ”Leinengen versus the Ants”, b. Leinengen versus the Ants, c. “Leinengen versus the Ants,” d. Leinengen versus the Ants C Titles of short stories are enclosed in quotation marks, and commas always go inside quotation marks. 12. After the car was fixed, it again. a. ran good b. ran well c. would have run well d. ran more well B “Ran well” is correct. “Ran good” is never correct. 13. “Where does the sun go during the asked little Kathy. a. night,” b. night”?, c. night,?” d. night?” D Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Question marks that are part of a quote also go inside quotation marks; however, if the writer quotes a statement as part of a larger question, the question mark is placed after the quotation mark. 14. When I was a child, my mother taught me to say thank you, holding the door open for other, and cover my mouth when yawning or coughing. a. When I was a child, my mother teaching me to say thank you, to hold the door open for others, and cover my mouth when yawning or coughing. b. When I was a child, my mother taught me say thank you, to hold the door open for others, and to covering my mouth when yawning or coughing. c. When I was a child, my mother taught me saying thank you, holding the door open for others, and to cover my mouth when yawning or coughing. d. When I was a child, my mother taught me to say thank you, hold the do