Grammar and Vocabulary in Context
What is tested
Saitama's grammar and vocabulary items appear inside sentences and dialogues: choose the correct form, complete a short exchange, or put words in order. The paper tests whether you can use tense, agreement, infinitives and gerunds, comparatives, relative pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and common collocations in context.
Core rules
- Read the whole sentence before choosing; the time marker or linking word decides the form.
- Check subject-verb agreement after phrases like one of the students.
- After prepositions, use a gerund: good at swimming.
- In first conditional sentences, use present tense after if and will in the main clause.
- For word-order items, build the smallest grammatical unit first, then add modifiers.
Worked example
"If it ( ) tomorrow, we will cancel the picnic." Choices: rains / rained / will rain / raining. Reasoning: the main clause has will cancel, so this is a first conditional. The if clause takes the present simple, not will. The subject it takes rains. Answer: rains.
Traps
- Using will after if or when in future conditions.
- Using present perfect with a finished past time: yesterday, last week.
- Confusing few and little, other and another.
- Missing a plural subject after one of the....
- Choosing a word that fits the meaning but not the grammar.