CELSA Study Guide 2026
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📋 CELSA Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CELSA Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample CELSA Questions & Answers
1. Which sentence uses an appositive correctly?
An appositive ('a doctor') renames the noun before it and is correctly set off by commas.
2. Select the correctly punctuated sentence with a list.
In a series of four items, commas separate each item including before the conjunction (Oxford comma).
3. Which of the following pairs of words are the most accurate SYNONYMS?
Synonyms are words with similar meanings. 'Egregious' and 'flagrant' both mean outstandingly bad or shocking. The other pairs are antonyms: 'gregarious' (sociable) is the opposite of 'aloof' (distant); 'lucid' (clear) is the opposite of 'vague'; and 'frugal' (thrifty) is the opposite of 'extravagant'.
4. If he had left earlier, he ______ the train.
Third conditional ('would have caught') describes an unreal past situation and its hypothetical result.
5. A: 'Wow, I had no idea you could play the guitar like that!' B: '___'
Sharing brief personal context and expressing gratitude for the compliment is the most natural reply.
6. Which of the following is an example of an inverted sentence for emphasis?
Inverting the normal subject-verb order ('Never is the answer') places emphasis on the adverb.