Duolingo English Grammar and Sentence Completion Questions and Answers Flashcards
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Choose the correct reported speech form: She said, 'I am tired.' → She said that ___.
Answer: she was tired
In reported speech, present tense 'am' shifts back to past tense 'was' and the pronoun changes.
Which sentence correctly uses a modal verb to express possibility?
Answer: She might be at the library.
'Might' expresses possibility and is followed by the base form of the verb without 'to.'
Identify the correctly punctuated sentence.
Answer: Although it was raining, we continued the hike.
A comma is required after an introductory subordinate clause before the main clause.
Select the sentence that uses parallel structure correctly.
Answer: She likes hiking, swimming, and cycling.
Parallel structure requires that all items in a list use the same grammatical form, in this case gerunds.
Which option correctly completes the sentence? By the time we arrived, the movie ___.
Answer: had already started
The past perfect 'had already started' shows an action completed before another past action.
Choose the sentence that correctly uses a phrasal verb meaning 'to cancel.'
Answer: They called off the meeting.
'Call off' is the phrasal verb meaning to cancel an event or activity.