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Five minutes. Where do you stumble?

Fifteen sentences — nine on tense, six on vocabulary. Each one sits where your first language and English divide things differently, so a wrong answer says less about your English than about which system you are still translating from.

Question 1 of 15

Daniel’s phone rings and his brother picks it up. Daniel is standing at the stove with a pan in his hand.

Sorry, he can’t come to the phone — he       dinner.