Grammar quiz - phase 2 - answer key

Check your answers and see how you did on this round:

_ v. _c_1. future simple c. I will probably see you at the meeting.

_ ii. _a_2. past continuous a. I was eating dinner when you called.

_ viii. _i_3. present continuous i. I’m reading a really interesting book.

_ x. _g_4. present perfect g. I have been to Paris twice.

_ vi. _f_5. past perfect f. She asked my name, but I had met her before.

_ vii. _b_6. past perfect continuous b. They had been walking for hours when it started to rain.

_ ix. _h_7. modal auxiliary (of obligation) h. You must present your passport.

_ i. _j_8. past modal (of deduction) j. Her coat is gone; she must have gone home already.

_ iv. _e_9. 2nd conditional e. If I were taller, I would play basketball.

_ iii. _d_10. passive voice d. His wallet was stolen while he was on the subway.

i. to speculate about the probability of something in the past

ii. for an action in progress at a specific time in the past

iii. to focus on the receiver of the action instead of the doer

iv. for a hypothetical situation in the present or future

v. for a spontaneous decision or a future prediction

vi. for an action that happened before another action in the past

vii. for an ongoing past action happening before a single past action

viii. for an action in progress in the present

ix. to indicate obligation, permission, or lack of permission

x. for an action that happened at an unspecified time in the past, which is relevant to the present