Here are 60 original grammar items in four sets of 15, one set per level: A1, A2, B1 and B2. Write your answers on paper first, then check them against the explained answer key. At the end, a score table tells you which level is secure and which rule page to open for every item you got wrong.
Give yourself about 5 minutes per set. Don't skip the "easy" A1 set even if you are B1: mistakes like he don't or in Monday survive for years in fluent speakers, and an examiner notices them faster than a missing B2 structure.
How to use this page
- Cover the answers. Do one set at a time.
- Write the full word or form, not just a letter. Writing has been living trains your hand and eye.
- Check, and mark each wrong item with the grammar point from the explanation.
- Use the score table at the end to decide what to study next.
- Come back in a week and redo only the items you missed.
Set A: A1 (items 1–15)
Choose the correct word.
- 1. My sister ___ a doctor. (am / is / are)
- 2. We ___ in Chilonzor. (live / lives)
- 3. ___ your brother speak English? (Do / Does)
- 4. There ___ two parks near my house. (is / are)
- 5. I have ___ umbrella. (a / an)
- 6. The lesson starts ___ 9 o'clock. (in / on / at)
- 7. My birthday is ___ May. (in / on / at)
- 8. She ___ swim very well. (can / cans / can to)
- 9. This is ___ bag. (Aziz / Aziz's)
- 10. They ___ at home now. (isn't / aren't)
- 11. I have three ___. (child / childs / children)
- 12. He ___ like fish. (don't / doesn't)
- 13. Where ___ you from? (are / do)
- 14. ___ is your teacher? Mrs Karimova. (Who / What)
- 15. We go to the bazaar ___ Sundays. (in / on / at)
Set B: A2 (items 16–30)
Put the verb in the correct form or choose the right word.
- 16. Yesterday I ___ (go) to Samarkand by train.
- 17. ___ you ___ (see) the match last night?
- 18. Look out of the window! It ___ (snow).
- 19. Tashkent is ___ (big) than Namangan.
- 20. This is the ___ (good) plov in the whole mahalla.
- 21. How ___ money do you need? (much / many)
- 22. There aren't ___ eggs in the fridge. (some / any)
- 23. I ___ (visit) my grandmother on Saturday. The tickets are booked.
- 24. You look tired. You ___ go to bed early. (should / must to)
- 25. When I arrived, they ___ (have) dinner.
- 26. She ___ (not come) to the lesson yesterday.
- 27. My phone is ___ than yours. (more cheap / cheaper)
- 28. I usually walk to work, but today I ___ (take) a taxi.
- 29. We ___ (buy) a new car last year.
- 30. Can you pass ___ the salt, please? (I / me / my)
Set C: B1 (items 31–45)
- 31. I ___ (live) in Tashkent since 2019.
- 32. I ___ (lose) my passport. I can't find it anywhere.
- 33. She ___ (finish) university in 2021.
- 34. If it ___ (rain) tomorrow, we'll stay at home.
- 35. If I ___ (have) more free time, I'd learn Korean.
- 36. This madrasa ___ (build) in the 16th century.
- 37. English ___ (speak) in many countries.
- 38. I ___ (use) to play football every day when I was a child.
- 39. I enjoy ___ (read) before bed.
- 40. She decided ___ (apply) for a master's programme.
- 41. The man ___ lives next door is a surgeon. (who / which)
- 42. I haven't seen him ___ three years. (for / since)
- 43. Tomorrow is Sunday, so I ___ get up early. (mustn't / don't have to)
- 44. Have you ___ been to Khiva? (ever / never / yet)
- 45. The film was so ___ that I fell asleep. (bored / boring)
Set D: B2 (items 46–60)
- 46. If I ___ (know) about the traffic, I would have left earlier.
- 47. If she had taken the job in Dubai, she ___ (be) rich now.
- 48. "I'm tired." → He said he ___ tired.
- 49. "Where do you work?" → She asked me where I ___.
- 50. By the time we arrived, the concert ___ (already / start).
- 51. I don't speak French, but I wish I ___.
- 52. I'm having my car ___ (repair) this afternoon.
- 53. He ___ at home. His car is outside. (must be / can't be)
- 54. Nigora is never late. She ___ (forget) about the meeting. (must have / should have)
- 55. ___ the heavy rain, the wedding went ahead outside. (Although / Despite)
- 56. I'd rather you ___ (not tell) anyone about this yet.
- 57. The more you practise, ___ (confident) you become.
- 58. It's late. It's time we ___ (go) home.
- 59. Not only ___ (she / speak) English, but she also speaks Korean.
- 60. The new bridge ___ (build) at the moment.
Answers
Set A
- 1. is. My sister = she, so is. Uzbek singlim shifokor has no verb at all, which is why My sister doctor appears.
- 2. live. We takes the base form; only he/she/it adds -s.
- 3. Does. Questions with he/she/it use does, and the main verb stays bare: speak.
- 4. are. Two parks is plural.
- 5. an. Umbrella starts with a vowel sound. The rule is about sound, not letters: a university, an hour.
- 6. at. At for clock times.
- 7. in. In for months, years and seasons.
- 8. can. Can never takes -s or to.
- 9. Aziz's. Possession with 's; English has no ending like -ning.
- 10. aren't. They goes with are.
- 11. children. An irregular plural, like men, women, people.
- 12. doesn't. He doesn't, not he don't. A very common slip in fast speech.
- 13. are. Be from uses be: Where are you from?
- 14. Who. Who for people, what for things.
- 15. on. On for days: on Sundays, on Monday morning.
Set B
- 16. went. Irregular past of go.
- 17. Did … see. After did, the verb goes back to its base form: not did you saw.
- 18. is snowing. Happening right now.
- 19. bigger. One-syllable adjective: double the final consonant and add -er.
- 20. best. Good → better → best.
- 21. much. Money is uncountable.
- 22. any. Any in negatives and most questions.
- 23. am visiting (or am going to visit). A fixed arrangement. I will visit sounds like a decision made just now.
- 24. should. Advice. Modals are followed by the bare verb, never to.
- 25. were having. The longer action in progress when another happened.
- 26. didn't come. Negative past: didn't + base form.
- 27. cheaper. Short adjectives take -er; more is for longer ones like more expensive.
- 28. am taking. Today marks a temporary change from the usual habit.
- 29. bought. Irregular: buy → bought.
- 30. me. Object pronoun after a verb.
Set C
- 31. have lived (or have been living). Since 2019 runs up to now. Uzbek and Russian both use the present here (yashayman, живу), so I live since is the classic error.
- 32. have lost. A past action with a result now: the passport is still missing.
- 33. finished. A finished time (in 2021) needs the past simple.
- 34. rains. No will after if in the first conditional.
- 35. had. Second conditional: unreal present, if + past, would + verb.
- 36. was built. Passive; the builder is unknown or unimportant.
- 37. is spoken. Present passive: is + past participle.
- 38. used. Used to + verb for past habits that have stopped.
- 39. reading. Enjoy is followed by -ing.
- 40. to apply. Decide is followed by to + verb.
- 41. who. Who for people, which for things. That is also possible here.
- 42. for. For + a length of time; since + a starting point.
- 43. don't have to. No obligation. Mustn't means it is forbidden.
- 44. ever. Have you ever…? asks about life experience.
- 45. boring. -ing describes the thing; -ed describes how you feel: I was bored.
Set D
- 46. had known. Third conditional: if + past perfect, would have + past participle.
- 47. would be. Mixed conditional: a past condition with a present result.
- 48. was. Reported speech usually moves one tense back: am → was.
- 49. worked. Reported questions use statement word order: not where did I work.
- 50. had already started. The earlier of two past events.
- 51. could. I wish I could for an ability you don't have now.
- 52. repaired. Have something done: someone else does the job for you.
- 53. must be. A confident conclusion from evidence.
- 54. must have forgotten. A confident conclusion about the past. Should have would be criticism.
- 55. Despite. Despite + noun; although + a full clause: Although it rained…
- 56. didn't tell. I'd rather you + past form, for what you want someone else to do.
- 57. the more confident. The pattern the more…, the more….
- 58. went. It's time we + past form, with present meaning.
- 59. does she speak. After a negative phrase at the start, use question word order.
- 60. is being built. Present continuous passive: is being + past participle.
Score table: what your result means
Count your correct answers in each set separately.
| Score in a set | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| 13–15 | This level is secure | Move to the next set or level |
| 9–12 | Mostly there, with gaps | Study the rule pages for your wrong items, then redo them in a week |
| 5–8 | The level is still forming | Study the rule pages, then write your own sentence for each missed item |
| 0–4 | Too early for this set | Go back one set; come back after two weeks |
Use this table to find the rule behind each item you missed:
| Items | Grammar point | Where to study it |
|---|---|---|
| 1, 10, 13 | to be | to be: am, is, are |
| 2, 3, 12 | present simple | Present Simple rule |
| 5 | a / an | How to use a, an, the |
| 6, 7, 15 | in / on / at | in, on, at |
| 16, 17, 25, 26, 29 | past simple and continuous | Past Simple rule |
| 18, 23, 28, 33 | choosing a tense | English tenses explained simply |
| 31, 32, 42, 44 | present perfect | Present perfect explained |
| 34, 35, 46, 47 | conditionals | Conditionals |
| 36, 37, 52, 60 | passive and causative | Passive voice |
| 39, 40 | -ing or to | Gerund and infinitive |
| 43, 53, 54 | modal verbs | Modal verbs table |
| 48, 49 | reported speech | Reported speech |
Items 19, 20 and 27 are comparatives, 21 and 22 are quantifiers, and 51 and 55–59 are B2 patterns you learn best as fixed phrases. Copy each one into a notebook with your own example.
The four slips that cost the most points
Most wrong answers from Uzbek and Russian speakers fall into four groups:
| Slip | Wrong | Right |
|---|---|---|
| Present instead of present perfect | I live here since 2019. | I've lived here since 2019. |
| Missing be | My sister doctor. | My sister is a doctor. |
| Will after if / when | If it will rain, we'll stay. | If it rains, we'll stay. |
| Question order in reported questions | She asked where do I work. | She asked where I worked. |
If you want a shorter warm-up in Uzbek before these sets, try the grammar mini-tests with explanations in Uzbek.
From written answers to spoken grammar
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