Grade 10 English – 4.1.1 Selective Listening Quiz
1. The team ____ going to Nairobi for the competition.
A team is a collective noun treated as a single unit here, so it takes the singular verb 'is' (The team is going).
2. By the time we arrive, the teacher ____ the lesson.
Use the future perfect 'will have finished' to show an action completed before a future time (by the time we arrive).
3. The presentation ____ by the students yesterday.
The correct passive past form is 'was given' (singular noun 'presentation' + was + past participle).
4. She said that she ____ me at 3pm.
In reported speech, 'will' changes to 'would', so 'I will meet' becomes 'she would meet'.
5. The teacher ____ we saw yesterday is from Mombasa.
'Whom' is correct as the object of 'we saw' (we saw whom). Formal grammar uses 'whom' for objects.
6. Students ____ wear their school uniform at all times.
'Must' expresses strong obligation and is the best choice to show a rule about school uniform.
7. She enjoys ____ football after school.
The verb 'enjoy' is followed by a gerund, so 'playing' is correct (enjoy + -ing form).
8. I saw ____ elephant at the Nairobi National Park.
Use 'an' before vowel sounds; 'elephant' begins with a vowel sound, so 'an elephant' is correct.
9. They arrived ____ the station at noon.
Use 'at' for specific points such as 'at the station' or 'at noon'.
10. If I ____ the exam, I would celebrate.
This is a second conditional sentence; use simple past in the 'if' clause ('If I passed...') and 'would' in the main clause.
11. There isn't ____ milk left in the jug.
'Milk' is uncountable, so 'much' is the correct quantifier in negative sentences ('There isn't much milk').
12. Every student must submit _____ homework by Friday.
'Every student' is singular, so formal grammar uses 'his or her' as the matching singular possessive pronoun.
13. They want the house ____ before winter.
After 'want' with an object, use the passive infinitive 'to be' + past participle to show someone should paint the house (to be painted).
14. She bought a ____ dress.
Adjectives follow the order: size (small), colour (red), material (silk), then noun. 'small red silk dress' is correct.
15. You have completed your work, ____?
A positive statement takes a negative question tag; with 'you have', the correct tag is 'haven't you?'.
16. Among all the schools in the county, Starehe is the ____.
When comparing more than two items, use the superlative form 'best' (not 'better' which is comparative).
17. Never ____ such a difficult exam.
After negative adverbs like 'never' at the start, invert subject and auxiliary: 'Never have I taken...'.
18. I suggest that he ____ earlier.
After verbs of suggestion, use the subjunctive base form: 'I suggest that he arrive earlier.'
19. We will go to the game ____ it rains.
'Unless' means 'if not' and is used to state the condition that would prevent going: 'We will go unless it rains.'
20. The plural of 'child' is ____.
'Child' is an irregular noun; its correct plural form is 'children'.
21. The soup tastes ____.
After linking verbs like 'tastes', use an adjective (delicious), not an adverb. ('Deliciously' is an adverb.)
22. There are ____ students in the classroom.
'Students' is countable plural, so use 'many' to indicate a large number.
23. She did the work ____.
The subject is 'she', so the matching reflexive pronoun is 'herself'.
24. He asked ____.
In reported questions, change the question order to statement order and shift tense: 'Where is the library?' becomes 'where the library was.'
25. After they ____ dinner, they went to study.
Use past perfect 'had finished' to show one past action completed before another past action ('they went').