“All¹ that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edgar Allan Poe)

“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves² happened rather than what actually happened.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something³ you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” (Doris Lessing)

“There is nothing⁴ either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (William Shakespeare)

In these sentences, the pronouns in bold are, respectively,

“There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” (Lord Byron)

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (William Shakespeare)

In terms of grammatical features, the two passages above have two aspects in common, which are the use of

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quotes with the comparative form of WIDE¹, the superlative form of GOOD², the superlative form of BAD³, the superlative form of LONG⁴, the superlative form of BEAUFIFUL⁵, and the comparative form of GOOD⁶.

“The brain is ______¹ than the sky.” (Emily Dickinson)

“It was the ______ ² of times, it was the ______³of times.” (Charles Dickens)

“Time is the ______ ⁴ distance between two places.” (Tennessee Williams)

“The ______⁵ thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” (Wallace Stevens)

“Most men are a little ______⁶ than their circumstances give them a chance to be.” (William Faulkner)

“Beginning next week, the Adjutant and I will be making¹ a series of snap inspections of section barrack-rooms. […] Just ordinary soldierly cleanliness and tidiness is all I want.” (Kingsley Amis)

“And I thought then, Just living long enough wipes out the problems. Puts you in a select club. […] Everybody’s face will have suffered², never just yours.” (Alice Munro)

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise³ to the heights you are no doubt capable of.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

In the sentences above, the tenses of the verb forms in bold are, respectively,

“I have often thought¹ what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

“She had had² to change her limbs. She had had to get limbs that ordinary people have and walk, but every step she took, agonizing pain! This is what she was willing³ to go through, to get the prince. So, I thought she deserved more than death on the water.” (Alice Munro)

In terms of verb tenses, the verb forms in bold in these sentences are, respectively, in the

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote respectively with the simple past of the verb TO HUM, the past perfect of the verb TO FORGET, and the simple past of the verb TO BE.

“On his desk, a huge old electric typewriter ______¹ — he ______² to turn it off. He was among the many word-processing holdouts in the literary world. The typescript ______ ³ right there, in a neatly squared-off pile, six hundred pages — long, but not vast.” (Ian McEwan)

“Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which¹ the flood did not sweep away.” (William Blake)

“Keep away from people who² try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” (Mark Twain)

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself³ in.” (W.H. Auden)

The pronouns in bold in the three sentences above are, respectively,

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quotes respectively with the present perfect of the verb TO HAVE in the negative form, the present perfect of the verb TO WEAVE, and the simple past of the verb TO FORM in the interrogative form.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world ______¹ the advantages that you’ve had.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“We ______² a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.” (John Keats)

“Accursed creator! Why ______³ a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” (Mary Shelley)

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote with the verb TO READ in the present continuous, the verb TO AGREE in the simple future, and the verb TO NEED in the simple present.

“I ______¹ six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you _____² , one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one ______ ³ ten others at the same time.” (Virginia Woolf)

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.” (William Shakespeare)

Considering the rules for the formation of the plural of nouns in the English language and considering the tense of verbs, it is correct to state that, in these verses, the plural of the nouns falls into the category of ______ ¹and the verbs are in the ______. ²

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks of the following quote with the simple past of the verb TO TAKE and the present perfect of the verb TO MAKE respectively.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I ______¹ the one less traveled by,

And that ______² all the difference.” (Robert Frost)