TESTS

Five-Minute Tests

1. Complete these sentences using either the singular or plural forms (or both) of the verbs in brackets.

1. Fashionable clothes (be) very expensive.

2. The police (have) arrested him.

3. Last summer his family (be) in the country.

4. The government (have) solved this problem.

5. Our basketball team (be) not going to lose the game.

2. Complete each sentence using the best adverb.

0. Sue is a very bad singer. She sings badly.

1. Our teacher is very quiet. She speaks ________.

2. Tim is a good swimmer. Tim swims _________.

3. My father is a careful driver. He drives _________.

4. He is seldom very angry. He seldom speaks to me _________.

5. He is a quick runner. He runs _________.

3. Complete the table. Be careful. Some adverbs are irregular.

4. Right or wrong adverb usage?

1. Sue can spend money wisely. ____

2. She learns English hardly. ____

3. She seldom goes to bed lately. ____

4. She can run fast. ____

5. She understands her English teacher perfectly. ____

5. Which is right?

1. I feel nervous/nervously. ____

2. She works hard/hardly. ____

3. It’s raining heavy/heavily. ____

4. He drives dangerous/dangerously. ____

5. These flowers look beautiful/beautifully. ____

Keys:

1. 1. are; 2. have; 3. was/were; 4. has/have; 5. is/are

2. 1. quietly; 2. well; 3. carefully; 4. angrily; 5. quickly

3.

Adjective	Adverb
slow	slowly
quiet	quietly
careful	carefully
sudden	suddenly
bad	badly
good	well
hard	hard
fast	fast
late	late, lately
early	early

4. 1. right; 2. wrong (hard); 3. wrong (late); 4. right; 5. right

5. 1. nervous; 2. hard; 3. heavily; 4. dangerously; 5. beautiful

By Youdif Boyarskaya,
School No. 814, Moscow