Grade 7 English – READING:ORAL NARRATIVES Quiz
1. Yesterday my aunt ____ me a funny story about our family.
The action happened in the past (yesterday), so the past simple 'told' is correct.
2. My parents ____ proud of my achievements.
The subject 'parents' is plural, so the plural verb 'are' is required for subject-verb agreement.
3. When the children saw their grandmother, ____ waved.
'The children' is plural, so the plural subject pronoun 'they' correctly refers back to them.
4. Direct: Mum said, "I will call you tonight." Reported: Mum said that ____ .
In reported speech we backshift 'will' to 'would' and change 'tonight' to 'that night'.
5. While Father ____ the story, we listened quietly.
Past continuous 'was telling' shows an action that was in progress while another action occurred ('we listened').
6. Grandpa gave the book to ____.
After a preposition ('to'), the object pronoun 'me' is correct.
7. That is my sister ____ school project.
The possessive apostrophe + s ('s) shows that the school project belongs to my sister.
8. First, we visited our uncle, ____ we went to the farm.
'Then' correctly shows the sequence of events in a narrative: first one action, then the next.
9. The woman ____ lives next door is my teacher.
For people, the relative pronoun 'who' is the correct choice to introduce the relative clause.
10. By the time we arrived, the party ____ .
Past perfect 'had ended' is used for an action that was completed before another past action.
11. She is ____ only child in the family.
'Only' begins with a vowel sound, so the correct article is 'an' (an only child).
12. He told the story ____.
The verb 'told' needs an adverb to describe how the story was told; 'dramatically' is the adverb form.
13. We ____ finish our homework before dinner.
'Must' is a modal verb and does not change form for different subjects; 'must' is correct.
14. She placed the photograph ____ the mantelpiece.
We use 'on' for something placed on a surface such as a mantelpiece.
15. Grandma ____ not like loud music when she was young.
To negate a past simple verb we use 'did not' + base verb; 'did not like' is correct.
16. ____ going to visit our cousins next week.
'They're' is the contraction of 'they are', which fits 'they are going to visit...'.
17. My sister has two ____.
'Children' is the correct irregular plural of 'child'.
18. My brother is ____ than me.
Comparative form for one-syllable adjective 'tall' is 'taller' to compare two people.
19. After we had eaten, ____.
A past-perfect clause can be followed by a simple past result: 'After we had eaten, we cleaned the plates.'
20. Direct: "Where did you put the photos?" Mother asked. Reported: Mother asked me ____ .
In reported questions, auxiliary inversion is removed and tense is backshifted: 'did you put' → 'I had put'.
21. She enjoyed ____ family stories.
The verb 'enjoy' is followed by a gerund ('telling'), not an infinitive.
22. ____ and my cousin went to the market.
In a compound subject, use the subject pronoun 'I', not the object pronoun 'me'.
23. The family photos ____ by my aunt last year.
Passive voice with plural subject 'photos' in the past simple requires 'were taken'.
24. You told the story, ____?
For a past simple statement 'You told the story,' the correct tag question is 'didn't you?'.
25. He said he ____ to visit his parents the following week.
In reported speech, present continuous 'is going' backshifts to past continuous 'was going'.