LANGUAGE SHEET 1

 

  1. Punctuate the following passage. This activity is testing the use of

 

he stroled toward the essex but after only a few paces turned left in the direction of the town westerns had never being his favourite type of movie and ronald raegan was far from his favourite actor at least the atomic kid was a picture hed never seen on television he paid his fifty cents admision cheerfuly bought an almond joy for a dime and went inside the movie was pretty lame and marty actualy found himself yearning four television comercials as a way of releiving the tedium ninty minutes later having suffered through the story of a prospector who becomes immune to atomic radiation and tracks down communist spies he went outside noting that it was considerably darker by the time he returned home it was quite dark marty opened the garage got into the delorean dropped the seat into a reclining position and closed his eyes

 

2. Punctuate the following passage. This activity is testing the use of

 

 

racing after doc brown he began to speak in a rapidfire patter doctor brown listen to me he said that bruse on your head I no how you got it it happend this morning you we’re hanging a clock and fell of your toilet and hit you’re head on the sink.doc brown whirled to look at him what have you be doing spying on me he demanded haven’t I even got privacy in the bathroom no marty assured him I didnt spy on you in 1985 you told me about this morning you said after the fall you had a sort of vision about the flux capacitor which is the heart of the time machine doc brown frowned this was indeed a puzzler how could this young man know what went on in his mind unless he told him while he was trying to figure it out marty spread his palms and voiced the same question doc how else could I know that unless I was from the future you could be a mind reader yes but im not im just an ordinary guy you happened to confide in where is this time machine now doc brown asked he was beginning to become intrigued

 

 

 

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SHEET 2

 

 

Correct the following by rewriitng the passage on your own sheet of paper

This activity is testing

 

you are so inflatulating she screams at him why did you prosist is tormenting me because I love you you know that yes I know that you love me so much you have taken me to that chalice in the mountain every year where they would welcome guests and extinguished visitors but you no I am never extinguished I wanted so much to be darling tomorrow he had thought not wanting to embarrass her about her errors I think you should speak less when you came to social places with me they’re you go again you are inflamed of me arent you no dear im not yes you are I wish you dont feel so compulsed to be around me

 

Complete the following sentences using the correct tense

For example

If I ________________________ that he was sick I _______________ gone to see him =

If I HAD KNOWN that he was sick I WOULD HAVE gone to see him

 

  1. I would have gone had ___________________________________
  2. If I knew ______________________________________
  3. I will go if you ____________________________________
  4. Had I been there I _______________________________
  5. By the time we get there he ____________________ gone
  6. By the time he got there he ____________________gone
  7. By the time I got there he ___________already won
  8. By the time I get there he __________________ already won
  9. I knew that by the time I arrived he ___________ already won
  10. They _____________ running a long time

Correct the errors in the following

  1. The plane will not have crashed had they listened to the pilot
  2. She said she would go if Ben had accompanied her
  3. If I was you I would not go
  4. He will go by the time I arrive
  5. you had been running by the time I arrive

 

 

  • LANGUAGE SHEET 3

    • Rewrite the following correcting all errors

    This is testing

     

    a body behind him smaller than expected groned as he smashed it back aganist the oposite wall the cable loosened at once he took advantige of his position and plunged an elboe backward to his astonishment he felt nothing but ribs as his atacker emited a high piched yelp he whirled about and in the dimness saw a dark sweat slicked face the woman from the misile silo the one who had tried to shoot them down with bullets her eyes were wild her scorched clothing even more disheveled than when he had last seen her unconscious and dying on the metal catwalk only now instead of a gun she held his phaser in her hands you picard wispered moving toward her how did you back of she shrieked the phaser in her grasp remained steady but a spasm of pure rage and terror coursed threw her body as a she cried out leaving her trembling in its wake she was teetering on the edge of hysteria picard realised and could very easily kill him all depended upon his response he drew a slow settling breath and forcibly relaxed his own features in a voice both reassuring and authoratative he said calm down shut up she spat then immediately contradicted her own words who are you my name is jean no her expression grew even deadlier she took a step closer and pointed the phaser squarely at his forehead what faction picard stared at her blankly for a full second before he understood of course she was from the mid twenty first century and had interpreted the borg attack as coming from the infamous ECON the people of her era were too focused on their planetary strife to consider that the attack might have come from beyond earth im not part of the eatern coalition he answered evenly look this is dificult to explain but i said shut up I dont care who your with she countered irationaly just get me out of this wotever this place is thats not going to be ezy she waved the phaser threateningly well youd better find a way to make it easy or im going to start pressing buttons he studied her thinking this woman had come alarmingly close to killing him once he was trained in the art of hand to hand combat but then so was she if he bolted now she wood fire very well he said finally follow me