CELPIP Grammar Usage & Vocabulary Range 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Choose the correct article: "She wants to become ____ engineer."
- a
- an (Correct answer)
- the
- no article
Correct answer: an
"An" is used before words beginning with a vowel sound like "engineer."
Question 2: Which sentence is grammatically correct?
- Neither the manager nor the staff was informed.
- Neither the manager nor the staff were informed. (Correct answer)
- Neither the manager or the staff was informed.
- Neither the manager nor the staff is informed.
Correct answer: Neither the manager nor the staff were informed.
With "neither...nor," the verb agrees with the nearer subject "staff," which here takes "were."
Question 3: Select the best synonym for "reluctant."
- eager
- unwilling (Correct answer)
- confident
- delighted
Correct answer: unwilling
"Reluctant" means hesitant or unwilling to do something.
Question 4: Choose the correct phrasal verb: "We need to ____ the meeting until next week."
- put off (Correct answer)
- put on
- put up
- put down
Correct answer: put off
"Put off" means to postpone or delay.
Question 5: Identify the correctly punctuated sentence.
- Its been a long day, hasn't it?
- It's been a long day, hasn't it? (Correct answer)
- Its' been a long day, hasn't it?
- Its been a long day, has'nt it?
Correct answer: It's been a long day, hasn't it?
"It's" is the contraction of "it has," and "hasn't" is correctly placed.
Question 6: Complete: "If I ____ more time, I would have finished the report."
- have had
- had had (Correct answer)
- have
- had
Correct answer: had had
Third conditional uses "had had" for an unreal past condition.
Question 7: Choose the word that best fits: "The instructions were ____, leaving us confused about the next step."
- ambiguous (Correct answer)
- precise
- explicit
- definite
Correct answer: ambiguous
"Ambiguous" means having more than one possible meaning, causing confusion.
CELPIP Grammar Usage & Vocabulary Range 3
Choose the correct article: "She wants to become ____ engineer."