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Grammar Test: Units 10 & 11: Noun Clauses, Direct & Indirect Speech (40 minutes)

I. Embedded Questions/4

Read each question. Choose the correct answer.

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1. Did our teacher give any homework this weekend?

a. It’s not clear that did she give us homework.

b. I don’t know if she gave us homework.

c. I don’t remember if or not she gave us homework.

d. I have no idea whether did she give us homework.

2. Did you understand the instructions?

a. No, I was confused by what she said.

b. Not really. I didn’t understand what did she say.

c. No, I don’t know what she said?

d. No, I couldn’t follow that she said.

3. Where are we going for the class trip?

a. I’m not entirely sure where are we going?

b. I don’t know are we going.

c. I’m not sure. Maybe Joe knows where we are going.

d. I have no clue where are we going.

4. How long should we study for the novel test?

a. No one knows how long should we study.

b. The teacher didn’t say how long should we study.

c. I can’t decide how long we should study.

d. Ask your teacher how long do we study.

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II. Noun Clauses – Error Correction/4

Each question has 4 underlined words or phrases. Three are correct, but one has a mistake. Correct the mistake.

1. What does she want us to know is that the test date has been changed.

2.I don’t know if or not Tom did what he was supposed to do.

3. Jim told us how the company should do and which employees should lose their jobs.

4. The fact that was nothing stolen made the police wonder if the murderer was a family member.

III. Noun Clauses – Editing/7

This section contains some mistakes with noun clauses. If the underlined part is OK, don’t do anything. If there is a mistake with the underlined part, make the correction as shown in the first example.

Dear Home Owner,

that

We are thankful what you have been our customer for over ten years, and what we want to tell you about is that we have started an exciting new program for home owners in your area. The usage of electricity harms the environment is no surprise to anybody; however, it is clear what we can reduce this harm if we change how do we produce the electricity. What does our new program do is allow home owners to choose whether do they want to pay a little more money to get their power from cleaner energy sources, such as from the wind or the Sun. Please contact our office at 911-2443 to sign up for this new program.

Yours,

Saskatoon Power Company

IV. Noun Clauses – Writing/4

Write a personal email to a friend back home. Tell your friend about the novel you are reading in U-Prep 1. In your email, use and underline and label 4 noun clauses for us to mark. USE:

1. one SUBJECT noun clause

2. one OBJECT noun clause

3. one SUBJECT COMPLEMENT noun clause

4. one ADJECTIVE COMPLEMENT noun clause

Hello my friend,

I would like to tell you about the interesting novel that we are reading in U-Prep 1.

VI. Indirect Speech/19

Dewey and his class had the following conversation yesterday. Change each line of the conversation below into indirect speech. Do not omit any information.

Direct Speech / Indirect Speech
1. Dewey: Everyone, turn to page 77.
2. Allan: Can I ask a question?
3. Dewey: Yes. What do you want to know?
4. Allan: Will we need to know this information for the test?
5. Dewey: I’m glad you asked. Everyone needs to know this whole chapter for the test tomorrow.
6. Allan:Because I’ve already studied this chapter, I’ll just go to sleep. Don’t worry about me.

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