Everyday Grammar Quiz
I failed the quiz🤷🏽‍♀️
My result is 3 of 8.
Mistakes:
- Question 2:
I am bored of staying at home every day. Some adjectives, such as “bored,” are followed by a preposition. And after a preposition, you will find a gerund or some other noun — not an infinitive verb. In the correct sentence, the gerund is “staying.”
2. Question 3:
I stopped to take an important call. In the correct sentence, “stop” is followed by the infinitive “to take.” When we follow “stop” with an infinitive verb, it means someone suspends one action for the purpose of doing something else.
3. Question 4:
In cleft sentences, the first clause gives information that is new to the listener, such as “It was the film Avengers: Endgame…” The relative clause gives information known to the listener, such as “…that led box offices last year.”
4. Question 6: (a verb + noun collocation)
I was able to cut down the branches. When talking about a past ability during a specific occasion, we use “was (or) were able to” — not “could.”
5. Question 8: (an adverb + adjective collocation)
Happily married. The other two answers are not examples of ways we commonly put words together.
