1.Which of the following is NOT considered in organizing a remedial program?

A. Assessment
B. Behavior
C. Curriculum
D. Interaction

2. Which of the following is considered in correcting basic sight vocabulary deficit?

A. Have the students repeat the word each time it is written
B. Have the students read the words repeatedly without correcting them.
C. Have the students receive a big reward for motivation purposes
D. Have the answers of the students on the board and correct in front of other people.

3. Which of the following is taken into consideration when a student is going to take a remedial
class?
A. If a student is struggling on his/her basic skills
B. If a student is referred to special education
C. If a student has behavioral problems
D. If a student is aiming for mastery if the lessons

4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an effective remedial program?

A. It is research-based using supported instructional methods.
B. It is facilitated based on the student’s pace.
C. It uses the same teaching techniques for mastery of the lessons.
D. It offers a small group instruction to provide more attention to individuals.

5. Which of the following is NOT recommended in using predictable books?

A. Choose a short passage sufficient to be read in one session.
B. Deliver the words on the books with excitement.
C. Let the students read the title and guess the content of the book.
D. Ask the students to do advance reading on the books before discussion.

6. The boy wanted to buy some food (active voice). Some food were wanted to be bought by the
boy (passive voice). Which of the following principles in grammar is applied to the given
statements?
A. Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C. Notional Grammar
D. Traditional Grammar

7. Dr. Buenafe have (instead of “has” because the subject is singular) the materials for the
painting. Which of the following principles in grammar is applied to the given statement?
A.Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C.Notional Grammar
D.Traditional Grammar

8. The committee has decided to give considerations to the family. The committee have decided
to give considerations to the family. Based on the given statements, which of the following
principles in grammar is applied?
A. Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C. Notional Grammar
D. Traditional Grammar
9. Based on the given statement, the wholeness of the sentence is classified as a declarative
sentence instead of the use of each word in the sentence. In this point, which of the following
principles in grammar is applied?
A.Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C.Notional Grammar
D.Traditional Grammar

10. The sentence “She is gorgeous” can be change to “The woman is amazing.” Which of the
following principles in grammar is applied?
A.Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C.Notional Grammar
D.Traditional Grammar

11. Janeth learns to speak in English because of the movies she watches. Which of the following
basic principles of language learning can be inferred from the given statement?
A. Language learning is not systematic.
B. Language learning is a specialized skill.
C. Language learning is an emotional experience.
D. Language learning is a developmental process.

12. Tricia believes that the language ability if her baby can be developed through random acts
like watching cartoon-friendly movies and not using baby languages/talks when talking to a
baby. Which of the following basic principles of language learning can be inferred from the
given statement?
A. Language learning is not systematic.
B. Language learning is a specialized skill.
C. Language learning is an emotional experience.
D. Language learning is a developmental process.

13. Because of her experiences, Ms. Natividad attaches meaning to the words of said by people
to her. Which of the following basic principles of languages learning can be inferred from the
given statement?
A. Language learning is not systematic.
B. Language learning is a specialized skill.
C. Language learning is an emotional experience.
D. Language learning is a developmental process

14. Mrs. Alolor asked her students to memorize the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer and
instructed them to recite it in front of the class. Which of the following principles is applied in
the given scenario?
A. Automaticity
B. Rote Learning
C. Strategic Investment
D. Intrinsic Motivation

15. Instead of focusing on her gestures, Mrs. Sacatrapos delivers her speech about
communication skills and focuses on her audience. Which of the following principles is present
in the given scenario?
A. Automaticity
B. Rote Learning
C. Strategic Investment
D. Intrinsic Motivation

16. All of the following are competencies that the Basic Education Curriculum aims to develop
EXCEPT _________.
A.Linguistic
B.Social awareness
C.Sociolinguistic
D.Strategic

17. The following domains for Grade 11 and 12 are included in Language Arts curriculum
EXCEPT ________.
A.Vocabulary development
B. Study strategies
C. Listening comprehension
D.Writing and composition

18. Which of the following is NOT a component of developing a curriculum?

A.Behavioristic Orientation
B.Rational- Cognitive Orientation
C.Humanistic Orientation
D.Behavioristic-Rational Orientation

19. Which of the following is NOT a theoretical basis for the English language curriculum?
A. Theory of Language
B. Language Acquisition
C. Pedagogical Thrusts
D. Structural Notion

20. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the framework of the language
curriculum?
A. Contextualized
B. Interactive
C. Integrated
D. Degenerated

21. Which is NOT true about the roles of people involved in curriculum development?
A. In curriculum planning, need analysts create policy document.
B. In program implementation, material writers create teaching materials.
C. In classroom implementation, teachers implement teaching activities.
D. In the specification stage, need analysts and methodologists create syllabus.

22. Which curriculum perspective considers the practical needs of learners and society that deals
with the functional skills in a foreign and second language?
A. Academic Rationalism
B. Social and Economic Efficiency
C. Social Reconstructionism
D. Learner-Centeredness

23. Which curriculum perspective considers developing learner’s intellect, humanistic values,
and rationality?
A.Academic Rationalism
B.Social and Economic Efficiency
C.Social Reconstructionism
D.Learner-Centeredness

24. Which curriculum perspective considers the learner’s differences, learner’s strategies,
learner’s self direction, and autonomy?
A.Academic Rationalism
B.Social and Economic Efficiency
C.Social Reconstructionism
D.Learner-Centeredness

25. Which ideology of the curriculum believes that learners should appreciate other cultures and
religions?
A.Academic Rationalism
B.Social and Economic Efficiency
C.Social Reconstructionism
D.Cultural Pluralism

26. What is the place of articulation for the first sound of the following words: team, terrible, and
tantamount?
A. Alveolar
B. Bilabial
C. Interdental
D. Labiodental

27. Which set of words is a minimal pair?

A. Fair – fare
B. Grace – graze
C.Pear – pair
D. Wise – Nice

28. Which of the following words has a first sound that is characterized as voiceless bilabial
stop?
A. Brother
B. Mother
C. Parent
D. Sister
29. All of the following words contain a schwa sound EXCEPT
A. Messenger
B. Social
C. Text
D. Twitter

30. Which of the following sets of words exemplifies diphthongs?

A. Reduce, reuse, start
B. Breakfast, tea, cheese
C. Teach, speak, listen
D. Cry, break, down

31. All of the following describes the aspects of suprasegmental phonology EXCEPT _____.
A. It is not limited to single sounds
B. It involves stress-timing and intonation
C. It is otherwise known as the prosodic features of speech
D. It encompasses body movement, hand gestures, and facial expressions

32. Which of the following words does NOT have a bound morpheme?
A. Incorrect
B. Infant
C. Stressful
D. Teacher

33. What kind of morpheme involved in the affixational process is common in the words
posted, pictures, and fastest?
A. Derivational morpheme
B. Inflectional morpheme
C. Null morpheme
D. Zero morpheme

34 . Which of the following BEST describes the word formation process called conversion?
A. It is the invention of a new word.
B. It is shortening a word by deleting one or more syllables.
C. It is the process of forming a new word by joining two or more words.
D. It is the process of designating an existing word to a new syntactic category.

35. What is the word formation process that the words spork, Interpol, and brunch underwent?
A. Backformation
B. Blending
C. Clipping
D. Suppletion

36. All of the following sets of words exemplify derivational morphemes EXCEPT ________.
A. boards, larger, scribbled
B. colorful, distraction, conducive
C. godly, powerful, professional
D. talented, glamorous, patiently

37. How many morphemes are in the word crocodile?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

38. What kind of affixis present in the word misunderstanding?

A.Infix
B.Circumfix
C.Prefix
D.Suffix

39. A second language of English says estatue for statue and filum for film. What
morphophonemic process is involved in the given scenario where a vowel is added at the
beginning of the word or between the sounds?
A. Assimilation
B. Elision
C. Epenthesis
D. Vowel lengthening

40. Which of the following syntactic structure contains equivalent grammatical units which often
joined by a coordinating conjunction such as in lost and found?
A. Structure of Complementation
B. Structure of Coordination
C. Structure of Modification
D. Structure of Predication

41. Which of the following exemplifies the syntactic structure of modification?

A. Be careful.
B. Money talks.
C. Pins and needles
D. Sympathetic colleague
 42. Which of the following BEST describes the structure of a periodic sentence?
A. It is composed only of phrases and dependent clauses.
B. It has two clause which are similar in length and word order.
C. It begins with the main independent clause followed by phrases and dependent clauses.
D. It begins with phrases or dependent clauses and ends with the main independent clause.

43. Identify the type of phrases that is enclosed in brackets in the given sentence: The faculty
likes to drop by the small chapel [adjacent to the clinic] before leaving:
A. Adjective phrase
B. Adverb phrase
C. Noun phrase
D. Prepositional phrase

44. All of the following sentences exemplify ELLIPSIS in its structure EXCEPT _________.
A. Should I call you or you me?
B. The student who wanted to become valedictorian did.
C. I will do the dishes today if you will do the dishes tomorrow.
D. Anton teaches all the Research courses while Jay the Math courses.

45. Which of the following BEST describes syntactic ambiguity? It refers to __________.
A. words having the same meaning
B. phrases which have the same meaning
C. words which have more than one meaning
D. phrases which have more than one meaning

46. Which word pair exemplifies hyponymy?

A. Pasta – spaghetti
B. Beauty – pulchritude
C. Fly (insect) – fly (zipper)
D. Benevolent – malevolent

47. Since she wasn’t able to get tickets for the first day of the concert, she availed herself of the
ones for the second day. (ones=tickets) What kind of linguistic reference is exemplified in the
given sentence?
A. Anaphora
B. Coreference
C. Deixis
D. Entailment

48. Which of the following pairs if antonyms is NOT a gradable pair?

A.Dead – alive
B. Fast – slow
C.Happy – sad
D.Hot – cold

49. Some senior high school students almost failed the exam in English. What is the sense
property in the given statement?
A. Analytic
B. Contradictory
C. Synthetic
D. Thematic

50. The phrase Filipino literature instructor could mean “an instructor who teaches Philippine
literature” or “a literature instructor who came from the Philippines.” This case is an example of
which ambiguity?
A. Grammatical ambiguity
B. Lexical ambiguity
C. Structural ambiguity
D. Syntactic ambiguity

51. Conversational Maxims are the cornerstone of H.P Grice’s account of linguistic pragmatics
of communication. Which maxim states that one should not make his/her contribution more
informative than is required?
A. Maxim of Manner
B. Maxim of Quality
C. Maxim of Quantity
D. Maxim of Relevance

52. Which conversational maxim is violated in the given example? Speaker A: How do you do
today? Speaker B: Oh well, you know. Same old me.
A. Maxim of Manner
B. Maxim of Quality
C. Maxim of Quantity
D. Maxim of Relevance

53. In a basketball event, only the officiating referee can call out infractions of rules and decide
penalties. Anyone else can shout a ‘foul’ but only the referee has the official word. Which felicity
condition is evident in the given speech act?
A. Essential condition
B. Preparatory condition
C. Propositional content condition
D. Sincerity condition

54. All of the following describe an indirect speech act EXCEPT _________.
A. It is mainly used by people in connection with maintaining politeness
B. It is the evident when the syntactic form of utterance matches the illocutionary force
C. It is an utterance in which one speech act is performed indirectly by performing another
D. It is the lack of direct connection between the form of utterance and the intended meaning

55. Which of the following describes the appropriate illocutionary force in the given situation?
Librarian: (points to a signage saying ‘Observe silence’) Can’t you read? Students: Sorry,
Ma’am.
A. The librarian is telling the students to read the signage.
B. The librarian is telling the students that they are foolish.
C. The librarian is telling the students to stop conversing in loud voices.
D. The librarian is asking whether the students are illiterate or otherwise.

56 After a lesson on writing a problem – solution paragraph, Teacher Anton tells the students to
write a paragraph in the problem – solution pattern on water service interruption. Which
communicative approach to language teaching is exemplified in the given situation?
A. Content – based approach
B. Participatory approach
C. Task – based approach
D. Whole language approach

57. Which instruction shows the application of the content – based approach to language
teaching?
A. Teacher April uses mind maps to activate students’ background knowledge on
communication.
B. Teacher Jay teaches his students the mnemonic to remember the order in which adjectives
should appear.
C. Teacher Beth dims the lights in the classroom and plays classical music as she reads a poem to
her literature students.
D. Teacher Shiela uses a text on the Philippines through history to teach the past tense form of
verbs.

58. All of the following are cognitive strategies in language teaching EXCEPT _______.
A.Context clues
B. Drills
C.Visualization
D.Word association

59. What process in language learning is evident in the statement below? Archie: I called Mom
and I asked her if she eated already.
A. Habit formation
B. Hypothesis testing
C. Overgeneralization
D. Simplification

60. Who among the following teachers has teaching practice that is compatible with the
humanistic approach?
A. Teacher Kelly who assesses the language learners’ motivations in learning.
B. Teacher Apple who integrates topics from other subjects in the language course.
C. Teacher Leslie who emphasizes on good pronunciation and lessened grammatical errors.
D. Teacher Kharen who assesses the immediate communicative needs of the language learner.

61. Which approach in language teaching is also termed mim–mem method for its dependence
on mimicry and memorization for language acquisition?
A. Audiolingual approach
B. Direct approach
C. Grammar – translation approach
D. Structural approach

62. Teacher Abby wants to teach her students the four basic sentence functions through games
where they are to move and do challenges. Which approach in language teaching will Teacher
Abby most likely apply?
A. Community Language Learning
B. Silent way
C. Suggestopedia
D. Total Physical Response

63. According to Stephen Krashen’s Natural Order Hypothesis, which are the FIRST
grammatical morphemes that are acquired by an average second language learner of English?
A. Irregular past tense form of verb
B. Auxiliary form of verb and articles (a and the)
C. Regular past tense, possessives, and singular form of verb
D. Progressive form of verb, plural form of noun, and copula (“to be”).

64. Which hypothesis deals with the consideration of the language learners’ motivation, self-
confidence, and anxiety in second language learning?
A. Acquisition – Learning Hypothesis
B. Affective Filter Hypothesis
C. Input Hypothesis
D. Monitor Hypothesis

65. Given below are metacognitive strategies that a language learner may use when he/she is
beginning to learn a new language. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A. A learner engages in fewer conversations with speakers of his or her mother tongue.
B. A learner monitors and assesses his/her own progress in learning the target language.
C. A learner reflects on which approaches to working out grammatical rule are more effective.
D. A learner plans how to remember new words encountered in conversations with native
speakers of the target language.

66. In accordance with the schema theory, which of the following is a purpose of schema in
reading? Schema is used to ___________.
A. Make a distinction between facts and opinions in a text
B. Make corrections about the morphological errors in a text
C. Anticipate, infer, and create judgments and decisions about the text
D. Enhance the learner’s knowledge about the deep structure of grammar in the text

67. Which of the following is an objective of the Grammar – Translation Method in language
teaching? It is to learn the target language ______________.
A. through drills and repetition
B. in order to read its literature
C. by engaging in authentic language use
D. through natural communication rather than formal grammar study

68. All of the following are summaries of the second language acquisition theory formulated by
Stephen Krashen EXCEPT ______.
A. acquisition is more important in learning
B. low or weak affective filter is required to allow language input
C. age is a definite predictor of second language rate or attainment
D. language acquisition requires comprehensible input containing i + l structures

69. Audiolingual method: tape recorder and audiovisual equipment: ____________: gesture,
mine, visual aids, wall charts, and Cuisiniére rods.
A. community language learning
B. silent way
C. task – based approach
D. total physical response

70. Which of the following is an example of a well-written behavioral objectives in language

teaching?
A. The learner demonstrates respect for cultural diversity.
B. The learner identifies the different communicative strategies.
C. The learner makes a distinction among the different communication models.
D. The learner makes use of the comparison – contrast pattern by writing a paragraph on the
similarities and differences among the features of several social media platforms.

71. Given below are purposes of a Dialogue journal. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A. It develops language learners’ theoretical thinking.
B. It may enhance writing skills in the target language.
C. It enable teachers to gain information about the value of a language course.
D. It enables language learners to build relationships with native speakers of the target language.

72. Beth is conversing with April who has difficulty in understanding English. Beth makes sure
that April understands what she is saying and makes up for communication breakdowns by
accompanying her speech with appropriate gestures and body movement. Which aspect of
communicative competence is evident in the given scenario?
A. Discourse competence
B. Grammatical competence
C. Sociolinguistic competence
D. Strategic competence

73. Who among the following language learners exemplifies sociolinguistic competence?
A. Edward who knows how to respond to different people depending on the communicative
situation
B. Ynah who knows how to nominate as well as terminate a conversation done in her second
language
C. Adolfo who is able to pronounce words in the second language with near native like
competence
D. Leah who makes sure that the words she is using are comprehensible to the language learner
she is talking to

74. BICS: skills needed in everyday, social face to-face interactions; CALP: _________
A. skills needed in interpersonal communication
B. skills used in informal settings to build relationships
C. skills used in the classroom in various content areas
D. skills needed to perform tasks beyond the school setting

75. All of the following teachers incorporated language activities that promote CALP and BICS
EXCEPT ___________.
A. Teacher John who held book reviews her class
B. Teacher Marie who conducted classroom debates
C. Teacher Tristan who conducted error analysis on learners’ outputs
D. Teacher Maridel who gave her students the chance to become “teacher of the day”.

76. Teacher Eddie is planning to incorporate minimal pair drills in his language class. All of the
following could be Teacher Eddie’s learning objective EXCEPT ________.
A. to explain how sounds differ
B. to communicate sounds in each pair
C. to identify which pairs are homophones
D. to distinguish between sounds in each pair
 77. Teacher Aljon adheres to a teaching methodology where the language learners are not
allowed to use their mother tongue. Given below are possible teaching methodologies the
Teacher Aljon uses. Which is the EXCEPTION?
A. Audiolingual Method
B. Community Language Learning
C. Direct Method
D. Silent Way

78. According to Stephen Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis, second language learner with
increased _______ have low levels of _______ and experience high level of _______.
A. Affective filters, anxiety, self – confidence
B. Affective filters, self – confidence, anxiety
C. Anxiety, affective filters, self – confidence
D. Self confidence, anxiety, affective filters

79. Which among of the four general orientation of modern second language approaches
emphasizes on teaching grammatical and syntactic elements of the second language in
isolation?
A. Affective
B. Cognitive
C. Functional
D. Structural

80. The reading approach is primarily executed for the fulfillment of practical and academic
objectives. Which among the following does NOT adhere to this approach?
A. Development of reading skills is of prime importance.
B. Pronunciation and conversational skills are not emphasized.
C. Widening the vocabulary in the target language is imperative.
D. Culture is considered the most important aspect in language learning.
 81. In the past, grammar was considered solely as ________. This means that it is set to
maintain linguistic excellence; as such, it relies on what grammarians believe to be best.
A. Descriptive
B. Pedagogical
C. Prescriptive
D. Transformational

82. Given below are several language teaching principles. Which one does NOT view the
language teacher as facilitator of learning?
A. Communicative Language Teaching
B. Grammar –translation method
C. Natural Approach
D. Silent Way

83. Which of the following language teaching principles also entails how students’ feeling
should be dealt with?
A. Audiolingual method
B. Direct method
C. Grammar – translation method
D. Suggestopedia

84. Total Physical Response: Comprehension precedes production; Communicative Language

Teaching: ___________
A. Oral before written
B. Function over form
C. Vocabulary over grammar
D. Explicit but minimal grammar
85. Teacher Val rarely corrects errors and when she does so, she maintains that it should be
unobtrusive. All of the following teaching principles entail doing the same to treat learners’
errors EXCEPT _________.
A. Communicative Language Teaching
B. Grammar –translation method
C. Suggestopedia
D. Total Physical Response

86. All of the following are language views accepted by Structuralists. Which is the
EXCEPTION?
A. Language is arbitrary.
B. Language is universal.
C. Language is primarily vocal
D. Language is a system of systems.

87. Behaviorist learning theory: language behavior is conditioned by rewards; ______: all
normal human beings have an inborn biological internal mechanism that makes language
learning possible.
A. Cognitive Learning Theory
B. Functionalists Theory
C. Interactionists Theory
D. Transformationalists Theory

88. Which of the following teaching methods is a direct implications of the behaviorist learning
theory?
A. Audiolingual Method
B. Communicative Language Teaching
C. Story Grammar
D. Think – Aloud

89. Cognitive – based: Directed Reading Thinking Activity; Humanistic Technique:

_________.
A. Bottom – up Text Processing
B. Community Language Learning
C. Information Gap Tasks
D. Natural Approach

90. Constructivism states that learning is an active, contextualized process of constructing

knowledge rather than acquiring it. Which of the following is one of the foundations for
constructivism?
A. Classical Conditioning
B. Experiential Learning
C. Pareto Principles
D. Social Development Theory

91. Which of the following is the learning goal of humanism?

A. To develop learners who have innovative and adaptive thinking skills
B. To develop self – actualized individuals in a cooperative and supportive environment
C. To develop learners’ mental ability to use concepts dealing with number, classification, order,
and time but use them in simple way
D. To create individuals who learn through mental mechanisms which enable them to recreate
and adapt their behavior in different situations

92. Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole is basically ________ while Chomsky’s is
basically psycholinguistic.
A. Applied linguistic
B. Computational linguistics
C. Neurolinguistic
D. Sociolinguistic

93. Which language theory holds that human knowledge develops from structures and
processes which are in the mind at birth and are also responsible for how language is learned
rather than from environment?
A. Behaviorism
B. Empiricist theory
C. Innatist hypothesis
D. Mentalism

94. Given below are teaching implications of Piaget’s theory on cognitive development. Which is
the EXCEPTION?
A. Teachers should focus on the process by which learners derive their answers.
B. Teachers should focus on acceleration or speeding up children’s progress through the stages.
C. Teachers should encourage learners to interact, with their environment as a way to discover
themselves.
D. Teachers approach to executing class activities should be individualized or in small groups
rather than whole group.

95. Sensorimotor Period: peek a-boo; Concrete Operational Period: ____________

A. Charts and illustrations
B. Letter cut-outs
C. Playdoh
D. Simple experiments

96. The theories of Piaget and Vygotsky agree on which of the following ideas?
I. Learner are primarily blank slates.
II. Learners actively construct their own knowledge.
III. Social interactions play a key role in Knowledge construction.

A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and II

97. All of the following are teaching implications of Vygotsky’s theory of scaffolding. Which is
EXCEPTION?
A. Give frequent feedback.
B. Demonstrate complex tasks.
C. Divide complex tasks into simpler.
D. Ask students to develop their own steps

98. Which of the following is NOT a constructivist teaching scheme?

A. Modeling
B. Elicitation
C. Restructuring Ideas
D. Application of new ideas

99. The information processing theory of learning proposed by Ashcraft explains how the mind
functions in the learning process. Which of the following is/are NOT TRUE about this theory?
A. It focuses on how learning takes place.
B. It emphasizes on how information is processed in the brain.
C. Its three components are sensory register, short term memory, and long term memory.
D. Both A and B
 100. Behavioral learning theories describe learning in terms of observable phenomena. Which
of the following is a pedagogical implication of this learning theory?
A. Teacher Jelo reinforces learning by giving his students rewards.
B. Teacher Shie treats her students in accordance with their level of maturity.
C. Teacher Jehrist encourages her students to make their own meaning out of the content.
D. Teacher Maggie arranges her curriculum in such a way that concepts on one level are built on
the precious one.

101. Which of the following sentences follows Parataxis?

A. I came, I saw, I conquered.
B. I came, then I saw, I conquered.
C. I came, I saw and I conquered.
D. I came and I saw, then conquered

102. Which of the following types of grammar is an example of this sentence: “I ain’t going
nowhere.”
A. Generative Grammar
B. Prescriptive Grammar
C. Descriptive Grammar
D. Constructive Grammar

103. Which of the following group of words is a sentence fragment?

A. Justice is served.
B. Escalate the issue.
C. She shone.
D. Her nieces and nephews.

104. Which of the following BEST exemplifies lexical ambiguity?

A. I saw bats.
B. Insurance salesmen are frightening people.
C. I woke up and saw ghosts.
D. We should be discussing violence on TV

105. Which of the following BEST exemplifies lexical ambiguity?

A. There is a fisherman near the bank.
B. Your money is in the bank.
C. The spoon is on the plate.
D. We should be discussing violence on TV.

106. Which among the given sentences is NOT an example of hypotaxis?

A. Be proud and be bold.
B. I cried, I pleaded, I walked away.
C. I cried and pleaded.
D. Stop and walk away.

107. Which describes a periodic sentence?

A. It suspends the conclusion of the sense at the end of the sentence.
B. It has syntactic units of equal lengths.
C. It is a basic pattern of antithetical inversion of the sentence.
D. It has a series of clauses extended from the independent clause.

108. Which sentence uses “famish” correctly?

A. I could eat a horse; I am famished.
B. I felt too famished to dig in to my favorite food.
C. I’ll be famished by the next time you treat me.
D. I will bring a lot of blueberries; that’s a famish

109. In which of the following sentences does the verb “be” (is) functional as the copula?
A. Sherrie is annoying
B. Lisa is going to swim.
C. Rayn is giving me a headache.
D. Max is writing letters

110. Which if the following is NOT a noun phrase?

A. Those houses
B. Are houses
C. Two houses
D. Old houses

111. Which of the following is NOT an intensive verb?

A. Make
B. Seem
C. Turn
D. become

112. Which of the following sentence uses extensive verbs?

A. Brent and his brothers seemed too tired.
B. At 10 p.m., Jenny vanished into thin air.
C. I am so angry because of what you did.
D. Jessie looks very young.
 113. Which grammar approach deals with the structure of language as it is used by writers and
speakers?
A. Prescriptive Grammar
B. Descriptive Grammar
C. Theoretical Grammar
D. Mental Grammar

114. Which of the following is a complex sentence?

A. Susan likes her project but she likes Blake’s project more.
B. Having been rejected many times, I decided to stop trying.
C. A cop’s hidden secrets were revealed by another cop.
D. Corned beef goes well with potatoes.

115. Which of the following sentence is a simple sentence?

A. I accomplished submitting my project.
B. I decided to stay while I wait for your return.
C. It breaks my heart losing you but I am not enough.
D. The protruding tree branch was just above him so tell him that.

116. Which is an example of a complex sentence?

A. The student went to the library to search for Literature books.
B. My friend went to the party, but I decided to stay.
C. The person who is responsible for the upcoming party fled.
D. I wish to watch John Wick 3, but my best friend, who has a big crush on Keanu Reeves,
insisted that we watch together

117. Which among the following sentences is free from grammatical errors?
A. There is three speakers in the seminar.
B. One-fourth of the students chooses Teacher Melay.
C. The textbooks that Rex Publishing Company reprint every four years are for public secondary
schools.
D. Much is left undone.

118. Which of the following sentences is ungrammatical?

A. I am not used to wait three hours straight.
B. The door suddenly closed while I was inside the room.
C. We have showed the products to the CEO.
D. There are much pies to eat.

119. Which of the following sentences is ungrammatical?

A. Redge pointed at each word while he read.
B. A cat peeked into the glass window of their classroom.
C. Massive is running in the speed of light.
D. I wish I was beautiful as her.

120. Which BEST describes the sentence, “Jose Garcia Villa had written beautiful poems”?
A. The verb phrase is in simple past tense.
B. “Poems” is the direct object.
C. The verb in the sentence is in passive voice.
D. The verb phrase is in progressive tense.

121. Which BEST describes the gerund in the sentence, “The beach’s main activity, kayaking,
continues to attract tourists”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition

122. Which BEST describes the gerund in the sentence, “Pamela’s life-threatening hobby is
sky diving”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of Preposition

123. Which BEST describes the gerund in the sentence, “Many students do not like reading”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of Preposition

124. Which BEST describes the gerund in the sentence, “Life spent in serving in teaching is
pleasing”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition

125. Which BEST describes the gerund in the sentence, “Every Sunday, my friends go
hiking”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of Preposition
126. Which word formation is used in the underlined word. “I have been thinking for a perfect
genre upcoming film”?*
A. Blending
B. Borrowing
C. Coinage
D. Compounding

127. Which word formation is used in the underlined word. “I have never tasted such a good-
tasting sandwich ”?
A. Blending
B. Borrowing
C. Coinage
D. Compounding

128. Which word formation is used in the underlined word, “Laxx started to doubt when Nyxx
asked her to come to the motel ”?
A. Blending
B. Borrowing
C. Coinage
D. Compounding

129. Which word formation is use in the underlined word, “Millennial celebrities often come to
the bazaar near World Trade Center”?
A. Blending
B. Borrowing
C. Coinage
D. Compounding
 130. Which of the following is a complex sentence?
A. Merlin cooks beef stew as Erik cleans the kitchen.
B. The altar boys assisted in the Mass.
C. Many were tested in faith.
D. The Senior High School graduation ceremony was held at Araneta Coliseum.

131. Which is TRUE about complements?

A. These are nouns or adjectives that appear after the direct object and describe it.
B. These are nouns or adjectives that appear before the direct object and describe it.
C. These are nouns or adverbs that appear after the direct object and describe it.
D. These are nouns or verbs that appear before the direct object and describe it.

132. Which of the following exemplifies a sentence with participial phrase?

A. Having finished the homework, Matt turned on the television.
B. Walking in the hallway is one of my morning routines.
C. The students in the classroom were silent.
D. The man awoke at noon.

133. Which of the following exemplifies a sentence with adverb phrase?

A. Having finished the homework, Matt turned on the television.
B. Walking in the hallway is one of my morning routines.
C. The students in the classroom were silent.
D. The man awoke at noon.

134. Which of the following exemplifies a sentence with adjective phrase?

A. Having finished the homework, Matt turned on the television.
B. Walking in the hallway is one of my morning routines.
C. The students in the classroom were silent.
D. The man awoke at noon.

135. Which is the BEST conjunction for this sentence: “Erin got the highest score in the
periodical examination __________ she did not review very well.”
A. Though
B. Although
C. So that
D. Because

136. “Macy thought Max left her; however, Max came.” “However” is a __________.
A. Coordinating conjunction
B. Correlative conjunction
C. Conjunctive Adverb
D. Subordinating Conjunction

137. Which of the following sentence is in the CORRECT use of the preposition?
A. We traveled there by foot.
B. We have to eat at morning.
C. This school has been here since three years.
D. I have been waiting for you for five years.

138. Which of the following exemplifies a reflexive pronoun?

A. The teacher gave herself a nice coffee.
B. The president himself believes that he can lead as expected.
C. Those friendly neighbors themselves were skeptic about the progress.
D. Susan herself made a nice cup of tea.

139. Which is TRUE about synthetic theoretical model for structures?

A. sentence-clause-phrase-word-morpheme
B. sentence-fragment-clause-word morpheme
C. morpheme-word-phrase-clause-sentence
D. morpheme-word-fragment-clause sentence

140. Which is TRUE about bottom-up theoretical model for structures?

A. sentence-clause-phrase-word-morpheme
B. sentence-fragment-clause-word morpheme
C. morpheme-word-phrase-clause-sentence
D. morpheme-word-fragment-clause sentence

141. Which function of the sentence is exemplified in this sentence, “This is my porridge.”?
A. Imperative
B. Exclamation
C. Interrogative
D. Declarative

142. Which function of the sentence is exemplified in this sentence, “I have never thought that
this feeling would come back again!”
A. Imperative
B. Exclamation
C. Interrogative
D. Declarative
143. Which is an example of sentence structure in inverted order?
A. I came to the capital from the village.
B. I am unable to forget it now.
C. From the village to the capital came I.
D. We will not forget who I am.

144. The heavy rainfall deluged the area where the father lived with his sons,” is an example of
which structure of sentence?
A. Simple sentence
B. Compound sentence
C. Complex sentence
D. Compound-complex sentence

145. Which of the following exemplifies the CORRECT present-unreal conditional

statements?
A. If I expected to be able to stay awake after nine at night, I must stop keeping these hours.
B. They will never get education if they were left to their families.
C. We should be giving the servants medicine if they are sick.
D. If my shoes get worn-out, I will buy a new pair of shoes.

146. Which of the following is an example of zero conditional sentence?

A. If you heat ice, it melts.
B. If you stand in the rain, you might get wet.
C. If it rains, you will cancel the trip.
D. If I won the lottery, I would travel a lot.

147. Which is CORRECT about third conditional sentences?

A. It states facts which are generally true.
B. It presents a possible situation in the future.
C. The person imagines a different imaginary situation that did not happen.
D. These are unreal or improbable situation now or in the future.

148. “If I hadn’t been sick, I would have gone to your party. “ This sentence is example of
which conditional sentence?
A. Zero conditional/ Present simple + present simple
B. First conditional/ Present simple + will/ won’t + verb
C. Second conditional/ Past simple + would + verb
D. Third conditional/ past perfect + would have + past participle

149. “If they sold their property, they would be rich.” This is sentence is an example of whish
conditional sentence?
A. Zero conditional/ Present simple + present simple
B. First conditional/ Present simple + will/ won’t + verb
C. Second conditional/ Past simple + would + verb
D. Third conditional/ past perfect + would have + past participle

150. “If he studies, he will pass the exam.” This sentence is an example of which conditional
sentence?
A. Zero conditional/ Present simple + present simple
B. First conditional/ Present simple + will/ won’t + verb
C. Second conditional/ Past simple + would + verb
D. Third conditional/ past perfect + would have + past participle