Grammar

For number 34-36, encircle the sentence which contains CORRECT Capitalization and
Punctuation.

34. A. Will the professor do his biology experiment in class?

B. Will The professor, do his Biology experiment in class?

C. Will the professor do his Biology experiment in class?

D. Will the professor do his Biology Experiment in Class?

35. A. “Romeo and Juliet” is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.

B. “Romeo and Juliet” is one of shakespeares most famous plays

C. “Romeo and juliet” is one of Shakespeare’s most Famous plays.

D. “Romeo and juliet” is one of shakespeares most famous plays

36. A. The subjects English, History and Science---are required.

B. The subjects---English, history, and science are required.

C. The subjects english, history and science---are required.

D. The subjects---English, History, and Science are required.

37. Which of the following sentences contains a grammatical error?

A. Have you finished your project, Sam?

B. John Keats wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
C. At eighty two, Aunt Tilly is still active.
D. Hurrying as fast as he could, Marcel caught the bus before it pulled away.

38. "All of us will attend the banquet," said the chairperson. How should this direct speech

be correctly paraphrased into indirect speech?

A. The chairperson said that “all of us will attend the banquet.”

B. The chairperson said that all of us will attend the banquet.
 C. The chairperson said, All of us will attend the banquet.
D. The chairperson said… “all of us will attend the banquet.”

39. Hemingways book “The Sun Also Rises” is about bull fighting. What correction should

be made to this sentence?

A. Remove the quotation marks.

B. Put a comma after the quotation mark.

C. Capitalize the word book

D. Put an apostrophe in the word Hemmingways.

40. Which among the following contains inversion?

A. A figure of speech in which the order of words is reversed so as to emphasize a certain word.

B. The insertion of a metrical foot that is out of place with the rest of a line’s meter.

C. Any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence.

D. The replacement of a word with its opposite.

For the items 41 and 42, these are lines picked out from the poem “To a Waterfowl” by William
Bryant. Choose the line which possesses a correct normal word order.

Wither, midst falling dew, Seek’st thou the plashy brink

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
Far through their rosy depths dost though pursue Or where the rocking billows rise and sink
Thy solitary way? On the chafed oceanside?

Vainly the fowler’s eye There is a Power whose care

Might mark thy distant flight to thee wrong, ________________________________________
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, The desert and illimitable air---
______________________________________ Lone wandering, but not lost.

41. A. Thy teaches along the way pathless coast.

B. Teaches thy way along the pathless coast.

C. Along the pathless coast thy teaches way.

D. The pathless coast thy teaches way.

42. A. Floats thy figure along.

B. Along thy figure floats.

C. Thy figure floats along.

D. Figure floats thy along.

For numbers 43 and 44, do the inverted form of the following sentences.

43. “I seldom leave my house so early.”

A. Seldom do I leave my house so early.

B. Seldom, I do leave my house so early.

C. I do leave my house seldom.

D. Do I seldom leave my house.

44. “I haven't ever felt so lonely.”

A. I never had felt so lonely.

B. Never I had felt so lonely.

C. Had never I felt so lonely.

D. Never had I felt so lonely.

45. The following states about the significance of inversion EXCEPT ___________.

A. Authors use inversion in their works to emphasize certain words.

B. The unnaturalness of inversion leads itself well in creating a poetic line.

C. It can help authors to create more poetic sense to the poetry or prose.

D. Poets use inversion to create a rhyme or uphold a meter.

Vocabulary

46. Hanna ate her brunch at 10 o’clock in the morning. Based from the given sentence, what is
the correct rationalization from the usage of the word “brunch” in a sentence?

A. The word “brunch” falls under the concept of clipping.

B. The word “brunch” means a part of a tree that grows from a trunk.

C. The word “brunch” came from the concept blending which means a combination of breakfast
and lunch.

D. The word “brunch” means a breakfast meal in the sentence.

47. Based from the given sentences, which of the following correctly used restatement as a
context clue?

A. Ecclesiastics, such as priests, ministers and pastors, should set models of behaviour for their
congregants.

B. The boy who is vociferous does not talk much anymore.

C. His pertinacity, or stubborn, is the cause of almost all his troubles.

D. Celestial bodies such as stars, planets and moons are governed by predictable laws.

48. Jerry went to the Science lab a while ago. Based from the given sentence, what is the correct
conceptual explanation of the underlined word?

A. lab is a clipped form of laboratory.

B. lab is a blended form of label.

C. lab is a shortened form of laborious.

D. lab is a compounded form of labiodental.

49. My opponent’s argument is fallacious, or misleading. Based from your analysis, what is the
meaning of the word and type of context clue used in unlocking it?

A. incorrect; restatement
B. true; synonym
C. absolutely correct; antonym
D. opinionated; explanation

50. Although some men are loquacious, others hardly talk at all. What was the type of context
clue used in defining the given word?

A. The type of context clue used is synonym and the meaning of the underlined word is silent.

B. The type of context clue used is restatement and the meaning of the underlined word is timid.

C. The type of context clue used is antonym and the meaning of the underlined word is talkative.
D. The type of context clue used is explanation and the meaning of the underlined word is quiet.