/test/
Translation
A set of questions or jobs that shows how much you know or how well something works.
Word origin
From Old French test, an earthen pot used to test metals, from Latin testum.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- test
Examples
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A "test" at school shows what you have learned.
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You "pass" a test when you do well enough.
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Here "test" is a verb, meaning to check that something works.
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(1)Grammar articles
(25)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
Causative have and get in English: have something done, get something done and having someone do it
Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
Dummy subjects in English: it's raining, there's a problem, and why the subject slot is never empty
Future continuous and future perfect in English: will be doing vs will have done
Future in the past: was going to, would, was about to, and the grammar of plans that failed
Future tense in English: will, going to and more explained
Gerund and infinitive: which verb form comes next?
English grammar test: 30 questions with answers (A2-B2)
Indirect questions in English: Could you tell me where the station is, and the word order that goes with it
Mixed conditionals in English: past causes with present results, and present causes with past results
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
Past perfect tense: had plus past participle, and when English actually needs it
Past simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Present continuous tense: form, spelling and uses
Present perfect tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Present simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in English: myself, yourself, each other, and when English does not bother
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
The subjunctive and the unreal past in English: I suggest he go, if I were you, and it's time we left
Time clauses in English: when, while, as soon as, until, before and after
Wish and if only in English: wish + past, wish + past perfect, wish + would, and why I wish I would is wrong
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