Try each item on paper first. Each faulty sentence is original, and the answer names the habit from grammar repair that it tests.
Part A: One habit at a time
1. Tense. “Yesterday, the class visits the museum and learns about old coins.”
Answer
“Yesterday, the class visited the museum and learned about old coins.” The word “Yesterday” sets a past frame, so both verbs take the past form.
2. Agreement. “The price of the tickets have gone up.”
Answer
“The price of the tickets has gone up.” The subject is “price”, which is singular. “Tickets” sits next to the verb but is not the subject.
3. Articles. “She bought umbrella and gave umbrella to her mother.”
Answer
“She bought an umbrella and gave the umbrella to her mother.” The first mention is new and starts with a vowel sound, so “an”. The second is known, so “the”.
4. Complex sentence. “Although the exam was hard. Most students finished on time.”
Answer
“Although the exam was hard, most students finished on time.” The first group is a fragment, so it must join the main clause with a comma.
5. Conditional. “If I will see him, I will give him the message.”
Answer
“If I see him, I will give him the message.” This is a real future possibility, so the “if” clause takes the present simple.
6. Pronoun. “Liyana told Siew Mei she had left her bag in the canteen.”
Answer
One repair: “Liyana told Siew Mei, ‘I left my bag in the canteen.’” Another: “Liyana told Siew Mei that Siew Mei had left her bag in the canteen.” The original allows two readings of “she” and “her”.
Part B: Two slips in one sentence
7. “The students was excited because they wins a prize last week.”
Answer
“The students were excited because they won a prize last week.” Two habits: agreement (“were”) and tense (“won”, since “last week” sets the past).
8. “If she would have studied more, she will pass the test.”
Answer
Two possible repairs depending on meaning. Real future: “If she studies more, she will pass the test.” Imagined past: “If she had studied more, she would have passed the test.” Ask whether the test is still ahead or already finished.
9. “Teacher gave us many homeworks, this made it difficult to finish.”
Answer
“The teacher gave us a lot of homework, which made it difficult to finish.” Three repairs: the missing article, the uncountable noun “homework”, and the comma splice, joined with “which” to give a clear link for “this”.
If you got these wrong
- Items 1 and 7: using present and past tenses consistently.
- Items 2 and 7: correcting subject-verb agreement.
- Items 3 and 9: using articles, countable nouns and quantifiers.
- Items 4 and 9: building accurate complex sentences.
- Items 5 and 8: using conditionals to express meaning.
- Item 6: editing pronouns and reference chains.
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