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1. What truth relation is exemplified in this pair 5. Let’s surveil the place. The morpheme
of sentences: “Sentence A: The fisherman surveil is an example of ________.
caught a fish.” “Sentence B: The fisherman
caught a milkfish.”? a. root creation b. derivation

a. Sentence A presupposes Sentence B. c. back formation d. clipping

b. Sentence B presupposes Sentence A.

c. Sentence A entails Sentence B. 6. What is the morphological error in the

following sentence: ”The boys’ in the camp
d. Sentence B entails Sentence A. exercises are held in the morning.”?

a. Two derivational morphemes are used in

the noun [boy].
2. What is the classification of the morpheme
in each of the following linguistic data: invert, b. The derivational morpheme is used before
covert, revert, subvert, divert? the inflectional morpheme.

a. Grammatical bound morpheme c. Two inflectional morpheme are used in

the head noun of the noun phrase.
b. Lexical free morpheme
d. The inflectional morpheme is used before
c. Grammatical free morpheme the derivational morpheme.
d. Lexical bound morpheme

7. Which of the following is CORRECT?

3. Why does the word “take” when
pronounced is different from the words “fake”,
“vase”, and “thank”?
a. All the three expression have initial
fricative segment.
b. All the three expressions have initial
affricative segment.
c. All the three expressions have final
voiceless stops.
a. A noun phrase must always have an
adjective and prepositional phase.
b. A determiner and a noun are obligatory
components of a noun phrase.
c. A noun phase must constitute a determiner,
a quantifier or a verb phase before a head
noun.
d. A noun in the noun phase may have an
adjective before it, or a determiner, or may
be followed by a prepositional phase.

4. The vowels in the words “pet”, “but”, “say”

and “sew” are _________. 8. In the phase structure rules, a prepositional
phase consist of a preposition, followed by a
a. [+high] b. [+low]
__________.
c. [-high] and [-low] d. [+tense]
a. noun b. objective pronoun

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c. noun phrase d. clause d. It is a non-literal locutionary act.

13. In second language acquisition, what is

the route to pidginization and fossilization of
9. Which is a sense property in which two errors?
words have the same sense, or same values
for all of their semantic features? Example: a. Nativization and assimilation
“teacher” and “instructor”
b. Nativization and accommodation
a. Hyponymy b. Deixis
c. Denativization and assimilation
c. Anaphora d. Synonymy
d. Denativization and accommodation

10. American: Are you a Filipino?

14. Teacher Betty justifies the inclusion of
Filipino: Yes, I am. grammar in her lessons. According to her, it
should be an integral part of the curriculum.
American: So you must be a nurse. What theory of second language acquisition
explains Teacher Betty’s justification?
What concept explains the conversation
above? a. Nativization Model
a. Referent b. Extension b. Accommodation Theory
c. Prototype d. Stereotype c. Communicative Language Teaching

d. Monitor Model
11. After supper, the wife asked the husband,
“Should I get you some ice cream?” The
husband responded, “Am I diabetic?” What 15. Teacher Judy examines the reading
conversational maxim is violated? selection that she will discuss in her class.
She reads the selection to check whether the
a. Manner b. Relation language and vocabulary might be to difficult
for the students to understand? What theory
c. Quality d. Quantity
explains this?

a. i+ l hypothesis
12. What can be said about a polite
b. Scaffolding hyphothesis
expression such as, “Can you give me a glass
of water?” c. Readability Test
a. It is an indirect illocutionary act. d. Emergent literacy
b. It is a direct illocutionary act.

c. It is an implied locutionary act.

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16. A Filipino family migrated to the US. After b. Natural approach

5 years, the child’s accent is typically Filipino.
He did not learn the accent of the Americans. c. Community language learning approach
When his mother was asked why his sin did
d. Direct approach
not acquire the accent facility to communicate
in English, the mother responded, “He didn’t
want to mingle with other children in the US.
He was always at home.” What explains this 19. Which of the following does NOT justify
phenomenon? the use of communicative language teaching?

a. Accommodation theory a. Within a social context, people need to

perform the tasks and functions.
b. Monitor Model
b. Students perform well in class, but they are
c. Discourse Theory unable to perform communicative task outside
the classroom.
d. Nativization Model
c. Within a social context, people need to
develop their cognitive abilities through
17. Which of the following classes promotes their authentic text and content language.
the desired learning environment discussed in
d. Students need to develop communicative
the learning-acquisition hypothesis of Monitor
competence as they enhance their linguistic
Model?
competence.
a. Teacher Judith teachers substitution drills
after a discussion on grammatical structure.
20. Teacher Mary learned in her graduate
b. Teacher Michael conducts a speech choir,
degree class that language learning could be
emphasizing correct intonation and
a result of cognitive processes, or the act of
pronunciation.
knowing something, which of the following is a
c. Teacher Ben shows a news clip from result of this principle?
CNN and asks students questions.
a. Content-based instruction
d. Teacher Lovely tells the class to write a
b. Desuggestopedia
letter following the correct format and
structure. c. Peripheral learning

d. Total physical response

18. The goals of this language teaching

approach are learn grammar, vocabulary and
culture. Teacher is the authority. He/She REFERENCE:
makes use of translation, deductive study of https://prcboardreviewersph.com/english-part-
grammar, memorization of vocabulary. Which 3/
approach of language teaching is described?

a. Grammar-translation approach