Question

1. Write the adjective forms of: 

(a) infection 

(b) office.

2. Pick out the verbs and state the tense. 

(a) Stephen Hawking has continued to write at a prolific rate.

(b) He had already announced he was retiring.

3. He failed to appear at a conference. (Rewrite using ‘not’.)

4. Pick out the prepositions 

(a) Hawking directs the program through a cheek muscle attached to a sensor. 

(b) He was rushed to the hospital for being what the university officials described as being ‘gravely ill’.

Answer 1

.1. (a) infectious 

(b) official.

2. (a) has continued – Present perfect 

(b) had – announced – Past perfect

3. He did not appear at a conference.

4. (a) through, to 

(b) to, for, as.