ENGLISH MAJOR REVIEWER

Part 5

1. Which of the following is an example of a c. A sequence of words that contains a

sentence fragment? subject and a predicate.

a. They fought

b. A family just moved in 5. Which of the following CANNOT function as

intensive verbs?
c. The boy and the girl’s uncle
a. Make
d. Quit it
b. Seem

c. Turn
2. In which of the following sentences does
the verb “be” (is) function as the intensive verb d. Remain
or copula?

a. Don is annoying
6. What is the function of the underlined
b. Don is fooling around. constituent in the following sentences: “Jake
dreads wild animals in the zoo”?
c. Don is annoying me.
a. Obligatory Complement
d. Don is going out of control.
b. Optional Modifier

c. Indirect Object
3. Which of the following are “optional
constituents” of this sentence? “The kind d. Optional Complement
history teacher surprised us with an
extraordinary reward.”

a. Kind, history, teacher 7. Which of the following statements best

qualifies as a “complex” sentence?
b. Kind, surprised, extraordinary
a. Don’t make any comments unless you
c. Kind, teacher, reward are fully aware of the issue.

d. Kind, history, extraordinary b. I didn’t start this dispute and I don’t want to
have anything to do with it.

c. You can wallow in your miseries or you can

4. Which of the following is the correct start over and move on.
definition of a “phrase”?
d, Jen likes her new house, but she doesn’t
a. A sequence of words that can function like the front yard.
as a sentence constituent.

b. A sequence of words that contain only a

subject and no predicate. 8. Which of the following structure is
“syntactically ambiguous”?

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a. The mayor invited all city hall employees to
his birthday dinner.
b. The columnist writes feature articles on
antique writing desks.
c. The man with all tall that sits rather
uncomfortably at the dinner table.
d. The valet looks imposing in his purple in his
velvet vest.
b. A statement which was true in the past but
no longer, or not necessarily, true at the
moment of speaking
c. A statement which was true, or an action
which was completed before another past
action
d. A statement which became true in the past

12. Which of the following types of words does

NOT fit into the category of determiners?
9. In Chomsky’s Transformational Grammar,
to what does a sentence’s “deep structure” a. Articles
refer?
b. Possessives
a. The version of a sentence that we articulate
and hear c. Prepositions

b. The outward form of a sentence d. Demonstratives

c. The final stage in syntactic representation

of a sentence
13. Which of the following sentence/s depict/s
d. The abstract representation of a a dative case?
sentence
a. Marga gave a donation to charity.

b. The charity received a donation from Marga

10. Which of the following concepts is NOT a
c. The university accepted an award from the
concern of syntax?
accrediting organization.
a. Lexical categories
d. Sentences B and C are dative.
b. Smaller units called constituents

c. Structural analysis
14. The following are basic simple sentence
d. Distribution and function patterns in English EXCEPT ____________.

a. subject + verb

11. Which of the following statements is TRUE b. subject + verb + object

with regard to the use of the present perfect
c. subject + verb + indirect object + direct
tense?
object
a. A statement which was true in the past
d. subject + object + verb
and still relevant to the present

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15. The following are linguistic mechanisms d. Janice has lived with her parents for ten
that Halliday and Hassan (1976) point in order years.
for texts to have cohesion EXCEPT ______.

a. reference
19. Which approach to grammar refers to the
b. ellipsis structure of a language as it is actually used
by speakers and writers?
c. substitution
a. Reference Grammar
d. genre
b. Pedagogical Grammar

c. Descriptive Grammar
16. What lexical process is exemplified by the
following? d. Prescriptive Grammar

Jo removed dust from the desk. = Jo dusted

the desk.
20. This sentence structure contains a
a. Compounding “ditransitive verb group”.

b. Conversion a. Max had replied to my letter.

c. Polysemy b. Max has turned a subtle shade of red.

d. Derivation affixation c. Max hates huge spiders.

d. Max is giving his boss a headache.

17. Which of the following is grammatical?

a. The burglar lurked.

b. It fascinated the alarm clock. REFERENCE:

c. I don’t like these books. https://prcboardreviewersph.com/english-part-

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d. Anyone who is a good friend must be
trustful.

18. The following sentences are considered

ungrammatical EXCEPT _______________.

a. William has brought it last Sunday

b. I’m believing you.

c. Help! I will fall.