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Worksheet (1)

I. Compound nouns
Three of the words below go together with 'head' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) ache
b) line
c) master
d) man
2. Three of the words below go together with 'news' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) reader
b) magazine
c) paper
d) flash
3. Three of the words below go together with 'birth' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) day
b) mark
c) control
d) baby
4. Three of the words below go together with 'air' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) conditioning
b) mail
c) port
d) pilot
5. Three of the words below go together with ' birth' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) shop
b) worm
c) maker
d) library
6. Three of the words below go together with 'police' to make a new word. Which
word does not make a new word?
a) person
b) woman
c) dog
d) force

Worksheet(2)
II. Prepositions
2. For each question, choose the single best answer.
1. My best friend lives ______ Boretz Road.
a. in
b.on
c.at
2. I'll be ready to leave ____ about twenty minutes.
a. in
b. on
c. at
3. Since he met his new lfriend, Juan never seems to be ______ home.
a. on
b. in
c. at
4. The child responded to his mother's demands ______ throwing a tantrum.
a. with
b. by
c. from
5. I think she spent the entire afternoon ______ the phone.
a. on
b. in
c. at
6. I will wait ______ 6:30, but then I'm going home.
a. from
b. at
c. until
7. The police caught the thief _____ the corner of Cascade and Plum Streets.
a. in
b. at
c. from
8. My fingers were injured so my sister had to write the note _____ me.
a. for
b. with
c. to
9. I am not interested _____ buying a new car now.
a. to
b. for
c. in

10. What are the main ingredients ______ this casserole?


a. about
b. to
c. of
11. My best friend, John, is named ______ his great-grandfather.
a. after
b. to
c. about
12. Grandpa stayed up ______ two in the morning.
a. since
b. for
c. until
13. My parents have been married ______ forty-nine years.
a. since
b. for
c. until
14. He usually travels to Philadelphia _______ train.
a. by
b. at
c. with
15. You frequently see this kind of violence ____ television.
a. with
b. in
c. on
16. I told Mom we'd be home ______ an hour or so.
a. to
b. in
c. at
17. I was visiting my best friend _____ the hospital.
a. of
b. at
c. in
18. The professor _______ South Africa amazed the American students with her
stories.
a. from
b. of
c. in

Worksheet (3)
III. Punctuation
Fill in the blanks with the right punctuation mark.
My father used to quote his favorite line from Shakespeare
to thine own self be true."

"This above all

It's hard to keep up with the new technologies in sound recording


wonder where it will all end.
Charlie

Pete

and Tony

art museum for $125


In July

1997

moved to Boston

it makes you

and bought a condo near the

000.
Braxton moved to Dallas

Texas.

So many institutions of small-town America -- the local drugstore

the corner

theater
the locally owned bookstore -- have gone the way of the cowboy
vaudeville theatre.
I tell you

Dr. Turveydrop

Philip Roth's novel

these symptoms are quite alarming.

American Pastoral

won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.

Tashonda gave two reasons for moving to Arizona


property in the east

Connecticut

Ronald Pepin

Peter Wursthorn

from Warwick
Rhode Island
Center at Yale University.
The bumpy

the high cost of rental

and favorable weather conditions out west.

The distinguished panel consisted of


from Hartford

sinuous road

Professor of English

Professor of Mathematics

and Kurt Simonds

Director of the Learning

and the incredibly loud

the radio

soon combined to give Marsupial a bad

violently

upset stomach.

obnoxious music on

migraine headache

Students have adopted the Learning Center as a computer lab


those new machines.
There's nothing like a violent
dreamless

and

shocking

and a

they just love

detective story to put me into a deep

sleep.

Hawthorne's most famous novel


countless schoolchildren.
Mrs. Bidwell told her students

The Scarlet Letter

has been read by

not to read the answers in the back of the book.

Worksheet(4)
IV. Word Formation

Fill in the following prefixes into the right place to form negatives.
a/ a/ dis/ dis/ dis/ il/ il/ im/ in/ ir/ un

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Whether the book is well or badly written is


important message.
We're living in an

material to me - it has an

perfect world.

The ownership of the painting remains


The organization insists that it is
any one particular party.
The new house is not

clear.
political and does not identify with

similar to our old one except that it's a bit bigger.

The benefits from pure research are often


She's

direct.

certain whether to go to Australia or not.

She was accused of having


Prostitution is

pure thoughts about her male students.

legal in some countries.

Lucy came back from holiday in France with a trendy


haircut.
It's totally
It was
It is
It is an
be false.

symmetric

rational, but I'm frightened of mice.


possible to sleep because of the noise.
polite to point at people.
logical statement, because if one part is true, then the other must

I love high heels but they're rather

practical.

His sisters thought that his autobiography was


He's been

honest in his dealings with us.

He's a good teacher, but inclined to be a bit


He was short and overweight and generally fairly
He makes these

loyal to the family.


patient with slow learners.
attractive.

modest statements of his own brilliance.

Worksheet (5)

.VI. Comparative and superlative adjectives


(1) Complete each sentence with the comparative form of the adjective in brackets.
Example: I think these pants look longer (long).
1) Which skirt is __________________ (big).
2) Id like the __________________ (dark) shoes.
3) I always take the __________________ (fast) train.
4) Who do you think is __________________ (beautiful)?
(2) Make comparisons between the given nouns using the comparative form of the
adjective in brackets.
Example: Cindy/Kyle/(tall)
Cindy is taller than Kyle.
1) Jeff/Steve/(fast)
__________________________________________________
2) That chair/this one/(comfortable)
__________________________________________________
3) Your shirt/mine/(pretty)
__________________________________________________
4) This phone/yours/(small)
__________________________________________________
5) The train/the bus/(cheap)
__________________________________________________
6) You/him/(nice)
__________________________________________________
7) The train/my car/(inconvenient)
__________________________________________________
8) This food/the food I make myself/(good)
__________________________________________________
(3)Add the correct superlative from the brackets to each sentence:
1. This is the .......... way to get there. (easiest / most easiest)
2. Your plant's leaves are the .......... around. (most greenest / greenest)
3. Shelley's puppy is the .......... of the litter. (tiniest / most tiniest)
4. The roads are the .......... at the weekend. (most busiest / busiest)
5. She is the .......... in the room. (youngest / most youngest)

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