Grammar Tests for English Exams: TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, SAT, YDS

Sample Question #1: (Tenses)

1.  The success story of Beetles cars —- in 1947, and by 1972, the total number of Beetles cars in the market —- 15 million.

A) was starting / is going to reach

B) had started / had been reaching

C) would start / reach

D) started / had reached

E)  was going to start / was reaching

Sample Question #2: (Gerunds& Infinitives / Modal Verbs)

2. Young poets prefer —- in literary magazines instead of publishing their own books since they —- a name for themselves in literary circles this way.

A) being published / will have made

B) publishing / should make

C) to have published / make

D) to be published / can make

E) having published / are made

Sample Question #3: (Gerunds & Infinitives)

3. The pattern —- in winter has developed to allow Emperor penguins —- to independence at a time when food is most plentiful.

A) of breeding / grow

B) breeding / to be grown

C) to breed / to grow

D) in breeding / grown

E) to have bred / growing

Sample Question #4: (If Clauses)

4. If we —- back in time to the American Civil War, a very different landscape —- visible.

A) travel / will be

B) could travel / would be

C) can travel / is

D) had travelled / would have been

E) travelled / could have been

Sample Question #5: (Noun Clauses)

5. The traveler was amazed by —- there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage in the caravanserai, continually repeating “Freedom!”

A) whether

B) that

C) where

D) why

E) the fact that

Sample Question #6: (Linkers)

6. In the old days, potatoes, carrots, and turnips were very popular among people, —- they could be stored all winter before the invention of refrigerators.

A) whereas

B) no matter

C) whenever

D) for

E) in contrast