Test your knowledge of the entire book by considering the following sentences and indicating which of them are grammatical and which are ungrammatical, with respect to the italicized element in each.
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Always attracted by the life at sea, …
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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… he decided to join the navy.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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The cats' litter smelled foul, and the rabbit's hutch did so too.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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We rarely go anywhere now that I've lost my job.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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Where there is no love, there is no hope.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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Never there has been greater scepticism about European integration.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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As pilot of this aircraft, …
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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… I have to announce that we're losing the height.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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Little Suzie is really growing up: now she can dress herself!
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- ungrammatical
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Will you please all take your swimsuit off before entering the sauna?
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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I'll bet it was the boys next door that broke the window.
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- ungrammatical
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At the protest meeting there was spoken about blocking the motorway.
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- ungrammatical
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Everybody was told to stay in their own houses during the disturbances.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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We could easily lose this match, but of course I hope not.
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- ungrammatical
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I heard the church bells ring, and Mary did so too.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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He said he was always short of money, but this can't be true, …
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- ungrammatical
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… since I have seen him pay for a meal at an expensive restaurant just yesterday.
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- ungrammatical
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It was my children who persuaded me to give up.
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- ungrammatical
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Is that the man to which she's getting married?
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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Did you have some success with your ill-considered bet on that lame horse?
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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At the Olympics, the Dutch …
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- ungrammatical
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… ran faster than the other nationalities.
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- ungrammatical
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The children both confessed to having let down the teacher's tyres.
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- ungrammatical
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There responded few people to my appeal.
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- ungrammatical
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What did you think of that remark of William's?
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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Can you tell me who are coming to the conference next week?
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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I hate to go where there is no light.
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- ungrammatical
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I refuse to believe he's slimming: only yesterday I have seen him gorging himself at an ice cream saloon.
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- ungrammatical
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Nobody seemed to know what to do with themselves.
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- ungrammatical
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When I stroked the man-eating tiger, everybody else felt free to do so too.
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- ungrammatical
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It was her family who helped her all they could.
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- ungrammatical
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The teacher may let us out early, but I expect not.
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- ungrammatical
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You know, we might have both been killed right there!
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- ungrammatical
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I sensed that he was angry, and so did Lenny.
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- ungrammatical
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Only difficultly …
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- ungrammatical
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… I could accept that I had lost.
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- ungrammatical
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So you had my car painted without my permission, had you?
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- ungrammatical
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I am learning English …
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- ungrammatical
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… since six years.
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- ungrammatical
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Turn to page 24 and 25.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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The most people like sun-bathing.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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That dog of John is barking again.
- grammatical
- ungrammatical
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Who's bike is that?
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- ungrammatical
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Since I can run fast, I could just catch the last bus.
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- ungrammatical
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Don't go near that cliff - you are warned!
- grammatical
- ungrammatical