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Mary’s College of Catbalogan

Catbalogan City

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Elementary and High School Department

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH MAJOR 3

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Test – I Multiple Choice

Direction: Read carefully the statement and choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your
answer in the space before the number. Strictly no erasure.

_____1. These are sounds produced using the two lips.

a. Labio Dental c. Alveolar

b. Dental d. Bilabial

_____2. These are sounds produced with the tongue raised and air escaping through the sides
of the tongue.

a. Fricatives c. Affricates
b. Nasals d. Liquids

_____3. The study of speech sounds and their properties is called ________________.

a. Phonology c. Phonetics
b. Phonemic d. Phonemes

_____4. English has 44 sounds which means:

a. 20 Vowels; 24 Consonants c. 22 Consonants; 22 Vowels

b. 20 Consonants; 24 Vowels d. 21 Consonants; 24 Vowels

_____5. This is the smallest unit of speech in all languages.

a. Morpheme c. Pragmatics
b. Phoneme d. Syntax

_____6. This is a non-segmental feature of English that comprises stress, duration and
prominence.

a. Word stress c. Sentence stress e. Accentuation

b. Contrastive Stress d. Rhythm

_____7. This refers to the rise and fall of the voice during stress.

a. Tune c. Voice
b. Intonation d. Pitch

_____8. Every syllable contains ____________ which occupies the center of the syllable.

a. Medial c. Onset
b. Nucleus d. Coda

_____9. Variations of a Phoneme are called _________________.

 a. Allophones c. Graphemes e. Onset
b. Morphemes d. Coda

_____10. Which among the examples below is the correct minimal pairs?

a. coat-goat c. thought-ought
b. sing-song d. dot-but

_____11. Consonants are described using three criteria, except one

a. whether they are voiced or voiceless

b. organ of production
c. manner of production
d. method of production

_____12. Language is a system and has four main levels of structure, except one

a. Phonological c. Syntactic e. Morphological

b. Lexical d. Semantic

_____13. These are sounds produced with the soft palate lowered and the sound released
through the nose.

a. Plosives c. Nasal e. Liquids

b. Affricates d. Fricatives

_____14. These are sounds produced with the back of the tongue touching the soft palate.

a. Alveolar c. Velar e. Palatal

b. Dental d. Glottal

_____15. Which among the following words below is an example of closed syllable?

a. cat c. eye
b. Sea d. pie

_____16. These words: contact, rocket, chicken, pillow, candy, crowded , are examples of what
syllable?

a. Monosyllable c. Trisyllable
b. Disyllable d. Polysyllable

_____17. The word drowned has a syllable structure formula of _____________.

a. C-C-C-V-C c. C-C-V-V-C-C
b. C-C-V-C-C d. C-C-C-C-V-C-C

_____18. In Phonotactics, which of the following words below has five Phoneme Pattern?

a. slab c. desk
b. bread d. street

_____19. A language that uses pitch variation on words is called _______________.

a. tone language c. tune

b. tonality d. pitch

_____20. How does a rhythm of language produce?

 I. a only III. b and c V. d only
II. a and b IV. a, b, and c

a. through stress and duration

b. by the manner in which stressed and unstressed syllables succeeded each other
c. it is marked with a stroke below the syllable which it occurs
d. none of the above

Test – II Direction: Complete the syllable structure below by writing the correct consonants
and vowels, and the phoneme pattern in each column. Given below are your
base words (First Column).

SYLLABLE STRUCTURE
KEYWORD ONSET NUCLEUS CODA PHONOTACTICS
(O) (N) (Co) (Phoneme Pattern Formula)
21. brand 22. 23. 24. 25
26. trend 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. extend 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. novel 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. symbol 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. stampede 47. 48. 49. 50.

Test – III Direction: Combine the first and second sounds to produce three examples of
words.

FIRST SECOND SOUNDS Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

SOUND
/p/ /l/, /r/, /y/ 51. 52. 53.
/b/ /l/, /r/, /y/ 54. 55. 56.
/t/ /l/, /r/, /w/, /y/ 57. 58. 59.
/d/ /l/, /r/, /w/, /y/ 61. 62. 63.
/k/ /l/, /r/, /w/, /y/ 64. 65. 66.
/g/ /l/, /r/, /w/, /n/ 67. 68. 69.
/f/ /l/, /r/, /y/ 70. 71. 72.
/O/ /r/, /w/ 73. 74. 75
/S/ /l/, /w/, /m/, /n/ 76. 77. 78.

Test – IV Stressing words and sentences

A. Direction: Use the following words either as nouns or verbs in sentences. Put the
stress mark correctly and use each word in a sentence.

79-80 contrast: ________________________________________________________________

81-82 exile: ___________________________________________________________________

83-84 import: _________________________________________________________________

85-86 decrease: _______________________________________________________________

87-88 combine: _______________________________________________________________

89-90. progress: _______________________________________________________________

B. Direction: Put the stress mark correctly on the content words.

91. The cadets stood at attention.

92. The vagabond was picked up and detained in jail.

93. The people reacted angrily to the presidents’ speech.

94. The roses will all be in bloom by tomorrow.

95. The squatters refused to vacate the private lot across the factory.

C. Direction: Put a stress on the following words with a shift in stress added with suffix.

96. politics - political - politician

97. organ - organic - organism

98. oppose - opposite - opposition

99. operate - operation - operational

100. personal - personality - personification

Test – V Give what is asked.

110. Explain the terms ONSET, NUCLUES, and CODA and how they combine to form
the syllable in English.

120. Discuss and illustrate any two non-segmental features and how they function in English.