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Unofficial practice for the grammar section of the iTEP exams: one sentence, one blank, four choices.

My sister ____ to work by train every day.

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Verb tenses and forms 9

  • By next Friday, the team ____ the final report. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Introduction to Verb Tenses, future perfect.
  • If I ____ about the traffic, I would have taken a different road. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Introduction to Verb Tenses, past perfect in conditions.
  • The meeting room ____ every evening after the office closes. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Passive Verbs, simple present passive.
  • My sister ____ to work by train every day. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Active Verb Tenses, simple present.
  • Passengers must ____ their seat belts before the plane takes off. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Verbs with Helpers, modals.
  • She ____ the report before her manager asked for it. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Introduction to Verb Tenses, past perfect.
  • She has never ____ a horse before. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Irregular Verbs: Overview and List, ride, rode, ridden.
  • They ____ in the same apartment since they got married. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Introduction to Verb Tenses, present perfect.
  • We ____ dinner when the lights went out. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Active Verb Tenses, past progressive.
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Nouns, articles and quantity 8

  • Each of the rooms ____ its own bathroom. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Making Subjects and Verbs Agree, guideline 6.
  • How ____ luggage are you taking on the trip? iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Count and Noncount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives), much, many.
  • My brother plays ____ every Saturday morning. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Using Articles, omission of articles.
  • The news about the new schedule ____ surprising. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Making Subjects and Verbs Agree, guideline 7.
  • She bought ____ umbrella at the station because it was raining. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Articles: A versus An, basic rule.
  • She speaks ____ at home and English at work. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Using Articles, omission of articles.
  • There are only ____ chairs left, so some guests will have to stand. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Count and Noncount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words), quantity terms.
  • We need to buy new ____ for the living room. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Count and Noncount Nouns (with Articles and Adjectives), uncountable nouns.

Prepositions 8

  • He was waiting ____ the bus stop when it started to rain. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, place.
  • Her parents did not approve ____ the plan. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, to introduce objects of verbs.
  • I can't find my passport. I have been looking ____ it all morning. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, to introduce objects of verbs.
  • My birthday is ____ July. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, one point in time.
  • The repairs must be finished ____ a week, so the workers start today. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, extended time.
  • She has worked here ____ three years. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, extended time.
  • The store opens ____ nine o'clock. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, one point in time.
  • We have a staff meeting ____ Monday. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects, one point in time.

Pronouns and connecting words 9

  • Be careful with that knife, or you will cut ____. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Reflexive Pronouns, the rule.
  • Could you help ____ carry these boxes upstairs? iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Pronoun Case, table of pronoun cases.
  • The engineer ____ repaired our elevator comes from my hometown. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Relative Pronouns: Introduction and General Usage in Defining Clauses, table of relative pronouns.
  • The hotel ____ we stayed last summer has closed. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Relative Pronouns: Introduction and General Usage in Defining Clauses, table of relative pronouns.
  • I stayed home ____ I was feeling sick. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses, dependent and independent marker words.
  • ____ it was raining, they went for a walk. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses, dependent marker words.
  • She invited my wife and ____ to the wedding. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Pronoun Case, compound structures.
  • That is the woman ____ car was parked in front of our house. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Relative Pronouns: Introduction and General Usage in Defining Clauses, possessive.
  • This is my friend Ana. ____ works at the hospital. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Pronoun Case, table of pronoun cases.

Word forms 9

  • He cooks very ____ for someone who has never taken a class. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Avoiding Common Errors (adjective or adverb), good or well.
  • He drives very ____ in bad weather. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, The Difference between Adjectives and Adverbs, adverbs.
  • I'm thinking about ____ a new job. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Gerunds, gerund as object of a preposition.
  • It was a ____ quiet street, so we slept well. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Adjective or Adverb?, real or really.
  • The manager asked the staff to arrive early, to dress neatly, and ____ their name tags. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Parallel Structure, words and phrases.
  • They decided ____ the meeting until next week. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Comparing Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives, verbs that take only infinitives.
  • This soup tastes ____. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Avoiding Common Errors (adjective or adverb), good or well.
  • We could hear the neighbors ____ in the garden. iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Comparing Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives, sense verbs.
  • Would you mind ____ the window? iTEP International, iTEP Academic: grammar section. Rule: Purdue Online Writing Lab, Comparing Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives, verbs that take only gerunds.

How this list was compiled: Our own sentences and questions for the grammar section that iTEP International lists for its exams. Sections and length: https://www.itepexam.com/products/itepacademic/ (iTEP Academic assesses reading, listening, grammar, writing and speaking; Academic-Plus tests all five and takes 90 minutes, Academic-Core tests grammar, listening and reading and takes 60 minutes, each including a 10-minute preparation period; graded within 24 hours; results valid for two years), read 2026-10-09. The pages of itepexam.com read that day do not give the number of grammar questions, the time for the grammar section or its question kinds, so this bank claims none: every question here is a sentence with one blank. Each grammar rule was read on 2026-10-09 in the page of the Purdue Online Writing Lab (owl.purdue.edu) that the question names. The bank holds 43 questions in five topics. Licence: Questions, sentences, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

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Grammar only, in five topics: verbs, nouns and articles, prepositions, pronouns and connecting words, and word forms. iTEP International's page for iTEP Academic, read October 9, 2026, does not give the number of grammar questions or their time, so exam mode here runs all 43 questions with no clock.

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