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Exercises: I. Supply the subject in each of the following group of words.

1._________________ made a cameo appearance.


2._________________ does not hold water.
3._________________ can tell interesting stories.
4._________________ is a favorite errand boy of the neighborhood and school teachers.
5._________________ claims that the project is self-liquidating.
6._________________ are still building houses for people displaced by the giant flood.
7._________________ managed to smile despite her problems.
8._________________ lends a hand.
9._________________ used to spend most of her time on her grandfathers farm.
10._________________ watch sitcom on the television only on weekends.

II. Complete the information by supplying the predicate.
1. Confucius _________________________________________________________________.
2. Drug abuse ________________________________________________________________.
3. Graft and corruption _________________________________________________________.
4. Pedestrians ________________________________________________________________.
5. Traffic in metro Manila ________________________________________________________.
6. China ______________________________________________________________________.
7. Public office _________________________________________________________________.
8. Honesty _____________________________________________________________________.
9. Chinese Literature _____________________________________________________________.
10. The Chinese people ___________________________________________________________.

III. Study the following sentences.
1. Innumerable changes happen in the twinkling of the eye.
2. Lake Tai Hu in southern Jiangsu Province is the fourth largest freshwater lake in China.
3. Few changes in modern times have been more momentous tha Chinas recent opening to the West.
4. China, a book written and illustrated by eight Chinese experts, provides a rare self-portrait of the land, its people, and its
5000-year-old heritage.
5. China is now the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world.
6. After about a decades suspension during the Cultural Revolution, art activities are being revived in China.
7. Women in mainland China have equal standing with men in industry.
A sentence is a group of words with a subject and a predicate and which
expresses a complete thought.
A sentence fragment is a group of word that does not express a complete ides.
It may not have a subject or a predicate or both.

8. Hidden behind the highest mountain in the world, Tibet had existed for centuries as a kingdom of mystery, a land of
monasteries, chanting monks, and a reverently serene people.
9. Upon setting eyes on the Potala, the Dalai Lamas palace, no traveler has failed to be astonished.
10. The Dalai Lama, Tibets mystical ruler, urged his people to live in peace with the Chinese invaders.

IV. Separate the complete subject and the complete predicate by a slanting line; then underline the simple subject once,
and the simple predicate twice.

1. Foreigners like Filipinos for their hospitality, their intense desire to acquire learning, and their unfailing cheerfulness
and good humor.
2. During my tour of duty in China, I managed to catch glimpses of the Great Wall.
3. The mood of the crowd was tense and determined.
4. At the banquet, during a superb ten-course dinner, my misgivings about the visit disappeared.
5. Mao had replaced Confucius as the spiritual leader of the nation.
6. As a defense, the Great Wall was not a total success.
7. The major topic of the book, The New Chinese Revolution, is the progress of Deng Xiaopings ambitious reforms and
their likely outcome.
8. Newly arrived from China in 1906 at the age of sixteen, Tan Boon Jin, hair still tied in the traditional queue, must suffer
his uncles enthusiasm about Singapore.
9. On the chair sits prize winning Chinese Novelist, Zhang Jie.
10. Headstrong independent and carefully aloof with strangers is the much discussed superwoman on the peking literary
scene.












I. Classify the following sentences as declaratice, imperative, interrogative at exclamatory.

_________________1. What form of government has Korea?
_________________2. Why was Korea called a Hermit Kingdom in the past?
_________________3. What interesting people the Koreans are!
_________________4. Please locate Korea on the map of Asia.
_________________5. Independence! What an irony it is!
_________________6. Eat right, stay fit.
_________________7. Keep hoping for the better times to come.
_________________8. How friendly to foreigners Koreans are!
_________________9. To a nine-year-old boy, Korea is a tropical paradise.
_________________10. Time heals all things, except a leaky faucet.
_________________11. Tea has been regarded as a medical wonder.
_________________12. Green tea is favored in Japan and China.

II. Give five declarative sentences stating some facts about Korea or expressing what you think aboutr Korea and
the Korean people.
A declarative sentence is used to make a statement. It ends with a period.
An interrogative sentence is used to ask questions. It ends with a question mark.
An imperative sentence is used to express a request, a command, or give directions. The
subject of an imperative sentence is always the pronoun YOU. An imperative sentence ends
with a period.
An exclamatory sentence is used to express strong feeling or convey an emphatic fact or
opinion. It ends with a exclamation point.
III. Give five interrogative sentences that express what would you like to ask a Korean.
IV. Give five exclamatory sentences that express what suprises or excites you about Korea and Korean people.
V. Give five imperative sentences.
VI. Give an appropriate response using the kind of sentence called for in each subheading.
1. Use a declarative sentence.
a) Have you read stories about Korean children?
Answer:_____________________________________________________
b) What is the imaginary dividing line between Nort Korea and South Korea?
Answer:________________________________________________________
c) What is the issue that sets North korea and South Korea against each other?
Answer:________________________________________________________
2. Use an interrogative sentence.
a) What a horrible experience!
Answer:________________________________________________________
b) How inviting the sea looks!
Answer:________________________________________________________
c) Look at the color of the sky!
Answer:_________________________________________________________
3. Use an imperative sentences.
a) Id like to borrow your new socks.
Answer:___________________________________________________________
b) Well see you soon.
Answer:_____________________________________________________________
c) Please let me borrow the novel. Ill return it to you after a week.
Answer:_____________________________________________________________
4. Use an exclamatory sentence.
a) Would you like to come with us?
Answer:______________________________________________________________
b) Did you like the movie?
Answer:_______________________________________________________________
c) Have you finished writing your report?
Answer:_______________________________________________________________
5. Use an imperative sentence expressing a request and command.
a) Call me up in the office.
Answer: (Request)___________________________________________________________
(Command)_________________________________________________________
b) Please bring the books for me.
Answer: (Request)___________________________________________________________
(Command)__________________________________________________________
c) Its going to rain in a few minutes.
Answer: (Request)____________________________________________________
(Command)_________________________________________________________
d) Wheres my bag?
Answer: (Request)___________________________________________________________
(Command)_________________________________________________________





Exercise: Underline the doer of the action and the verb; then changed the sentences to active voice.

1. The books were distributed by Ched.
2. The board was erased by Chona yesterday.
3. The pencils were sharpened by Bea.
4. The brave firefighter was awarded a medal by the city council.
5. Tess was elected secretary by sophomore class.
6. The gate is opened by the guard every time a visitor arrives.
7. George is considered a good leader by the management.
8. Chess will be played by Marvin and Robert.
9. The class will be represented by Rose and Dalene.
10. The attendance sheet is signed by everybody.

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