ENGLISH GRAMMAR WITH ANSWERS MODEL27082023003

ENGLISH GRAMMAR WITH ANSWERS

GRAMMAR

(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. (3mks)
(i) Jelimo is the most popular athlete in Kenya. (Begin: No…………………)
(ii) The young man was very hungry. He swallowed the food without chewing it. (Begin: So…………………)
(iii) The teacher found out how intelligent Kiplagat was when he started the discussion.(Begin: It was not..)
(b) Replace the underlined phrasal verbs with other words of the same meaning. (3mks)
(i) The children kept breaking in on our conversation.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(ii) The activists stood up for what they believed.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(iii) The building project had really eaten into my savings. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(c) Fill in the gaps with an appropriate preposition. (2mks)
(i) The prefect is answerable _ the behaviour of the class.
(ii) I have placed the coffee table _ the shade of that tree over there.
(d) Complete each of the following sentences with one of the words in brackets. (3mks)
(i) They saw animals in the park than they expected. (Less, fewer)
(ii) After walking for three kilometers, they were lucky to get _ water from the stream.(Little, a little)
(e) Correct the error in each of the sentences below. (2mks)
(i) I went for shopping yesterday.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(ii) How do you hope to get the lost child between so many people?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(f) Explain the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions in the following sentences. (2mks)
(i) They arrived at the eleventh hour.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(ii) Most people prefer to sit at the fence.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

ANSWERS

a)i) No athlete in Kenya is more popular than Jelimo.
ii) So hungry was the young man than, that he swallowed the food without chewing.
iii) It was not until Kiplagat started the discussion that the teacher found out (that) he was
intelligent. (3mks)

b) i) interrupting
ii) defended
iii) depleted (3mks)
c) i) for
ii) in (2mks)
d) i) fewer
ii) a little
iii) little (3mks)
e) i) I went shopping yesterday.
ii) How do you hope to get a lost child among so many people. (2mks)
f) i) The last minute.
ii) Being undecided/not getting involved/not being bothered. (2mks)

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