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1. In the sentence, The club meeting will be over in an hour, the underlined
phrase function as _____.
A. subject complement
C. prepositional phrase
B. predicate noun
D. adverbial
2. Which of these is a passive sentence?
A. The box contains a pair of silver shoes.
B. He has bought a new house by the lake.
C. Bob got excused for his offense.
D. The choir sang an early folk tune.
3. In the sentence My aunt tenderly mothers her youngest son, the underlined
word is _____.
A. a noun
C. an adjective
B. a verb
D. a possessive
4. I can hardly hear the news. Please turn _____ the volume.
A. over
C. around
B. up
D. on
5. Which of the following adjective phrases is syntactically correct?
A. the most perfect
C. the very perfect
B. nearly perfect
D. less perfect
6. Which of the following phrases is properly sequenced?
A. an old ugly gray wooden statue
B. a wooden old ugly gray statue
C. an ugly old gray wooden statue
D. a gray wooden old ugly statue
7. Which of the following simple past verb is a marked form?
A. wrote
C. weighed
B. dreams
D. kept
8. Which of the following is not a derived noun?
A. attendance
C. perfectly
B. televise
D. children
9. In the sentence, The supplier delivers water on Tuesdays and Fridays, the verb
is a _____.
A. transitive verb
C. linking verb
B. intransitive verb
D. phrasal verb
10. Which of the following nouns shows inflection?
A. Friendship
C. advocacy
B. Helplessness
D. librarians
11. The words: brunch, smog, urinalysis, broasted are formed through the process
called
A. clipping
C. abbreviating
B. blending
D. compounding
12. The sense relation illustrated by the following words: hotel, inn, motel, hostel is
_____.
A. hyponymy
C. ambiguity
B. synonymy
D. antonymy
13. That all normal children the world over acquire a mother tongue supports the
idea that language is
A. creative
C. arbitrary
B. conventional
D. universal
14. The English phonemic symbol that matches the following articulatory
description: voiced velar nasal is _____.
A. / m /
C. / /
B. / r /
D. / n /
15. When reading aloud the word computerization, one hears the primary stress fall
on the _____ syllable.
A. fourth
C. first
B. sixth
D. fifth
16. The word formed with a derivational morpheme is _____
A. rests
C. rested
B. restive
D. resting
17. Showing the contrast between vowels / i / and / I /, as in heat and hit, is best
presented by using _____.
A. analogous pairs
C. minimal pairs
B. dyadic pairs
D. complementary pairs
18. When second language learners pronounce beast as beats, prescribe as
perscribe , they demonstrate a speech behavior that illustrates a morphophonemic
change known as _____.
A. assimilation
C. epenthesis
B. metathesis
D. dissimilation
19. The following sentence is ungrammatical because it violates the rule _____.
The RH bill being discussed in Congress is controversy.
A. agreement
C. tense
B. word order
D. derivation
20. Which if the following is alluded to in this old English riddle?
From heaven I fall, though from earth I begin;
No lady alive can show such a skin.
Im bright as an angel, and like as a feather,
But heavy and dark when you squeeze me together.
a. snow
b. storm
c. rain
d. star
21. Who wrote this line? Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
a. Robert Browning
b. William Shakespeare
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. Edgar Allan Poe
22. What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of Treasure Island?
a. English
b. Welsh
c. Irish
d. Scottish
a. Sigmund Freud
b. John Noble
c. Michelangelo
d. Vincent Van Gogh
37. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucers pilgrims?
a. The Knight
b. The Parson
c. The Reeve
d. The Wife of Bath
38. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
a. The Sergeant /Man of Law
b. The Wife of Bath
c. The Reeve
d. The Pardoner
39. He translated The Fall of Princes from the French.
a. William Langland
b. Sir Thomas Malory
c. Geoffrey of Monmouth
d. John Lydgate
40. What work contains these lines: There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown
rider . . . Half a giant on earth I hold him to be.
a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
b. Morte Darthur
c. Piers Plowman
d. Canterbury Tales
41. Students whose language at home is not English are called students who are
taught ___________.
a. Technical English
b. Bilingual English
c. Standard English
d. English as a Second Language
42. What can be inferred from the statement Johnny, he play ball with his father.?
The student speaks ___________ English.
a. non-standard
b. informal standard
c. formal
d. standard
43. Which of the theories of learning, language and literacy views children as having
the ability to organize and integrate information in schemata?
a. Interactive
b. Reader Response
c. Sociolinguistic
d. Constructivist
44. What do you call one chair in the classroom which has been designated for
students use during sharing period?
a. Readers Chair
b. Hot Seat
c. Authors Chair
d. Speakers Chair
45. On which of the following would early and modern grammarians most likely
disagree?
a. Grammar is associated with philosophy and literary criticism.
b. A school of linguistics rejected traditional grammar.
c. It is just as important to study gestures as to study punctuation.
d. Every known language first appeared in written form.
46. The punctuation marks were developed, in part, because written communication
offers no opportunity for:
I.
Inflection
II.
Tone
III.
Face-to-face Engagement
a.
b.
c.
d.
I and III
II
I and II
III
58. What
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b.
c.
d.