ENGLISH SUBJECT

I. Parts of Speech

NOUNS
• A noun names something-persons, places, things, events, phenomena, emotions, etc.
Kinds of Nouns
• Proper nouns-names of specific persons, things and places.
• Common nouns-refer to any one of a class of persons, places or things
• Count nouns-nouns that can be counted and quantified using numbers
• Non-count nouns-nouns that cannot be counted and quantified using measurements mass
nouns, abstract nouns, events occasions and phenomena
• Collective nouns-nouns that name a group of persons or things
• Compound nouns-nouns that are made up of two words acting as single unit Compound
nouns may be written as separate words, hyphenated words, or combined words.
PRONOUNS
Pronouns are words that stand for nouns.
Kinds of Pronouns
• Personal pronouns-these are pronouns that refer to the person speaking, the person
spoken to, or the persons/or things/spoken about.
PERSONAL PRONOUNS

SINGULAR PRURAL

I (Subjective) WE (Subjective)
FIRST PERSON
ME (Objective) US (Objective)

SECOND PRSON YOU YOU

SHE, HE, THEY (Subjective)

THIRD PERSON
HER, HIM, IT THEM (Objective)

• Possessive pronouns- these are pronouns that show possession

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
 MY
MINE
OUR
OURS
YOUR
YOURS
THEIR
THEIR
HIS
HIS
HER
HERS
ITS

Examples:
Possessive Adjective: This is my book ("my" qualifies the word "book")
Possessive Pronoun: This book is mine. ("mine" represents the owner of the book)

• Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

SINGULAR PLURAL
OURSELVES
FIRST PERSON MYSELF

YOURSELVES
SECOND PERSON YOURSELF

HERSELF
ITSELF THEMSELVES
THIRD PERSON
ONESELF

Examples:
REFLEXIVE INTENSIVE
The pronoun refers to the subject The pronoun shows emphasis

A. I see myself in his actions. A. I, myself is the culprit.

B. Did you teach yourself? B. You, yourself teach.
C. He cut the paper himself C. He, himself cut the paper.
D. They were shocked about D. They themselves were shocked.
themselves.
 • Indefinite Pronouns-do not refer to specific noun

SINGULAR PLURAL BOTH SINGULAR AND PLURAL

NONE
ANY
ALL
EVERYONE BOTH SEVERAL
SOME
ANYBODY NO FEW
ONE MANY
EVERYBODY
ANYONE

• Interrogative Pronouns-used in asking questions

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

WHO HOW TO WHOM

WHAT WHOM TO WHAT

WHICH WHOSE TO WHICH

WHY WHEN WHERE

Questions.
Direction: Choose the best answer from the choices given.
• It surely takes a lifetime for Edgar Allan Poe to forget his lost love, but he ____________
hard to move on amidst tremendous loneliness and despair.
• has been trying
• has tired
• had tired
• had been trying
• What can be the most appropriate follow-up sentence to the given statement below?
"I have been teaching for 34 years."
• So it is now time to quit
• And I can't imagine doing anything else
• And I want this to be end right now
• And my children are now teachers, too
• Emily Bronte __________ her last novel when she died.
• has written
• had been writing
• had written
• has been writing
• Which among the sentences below followed the correct order of adjectives?
• She drives an expensive black Japanese sports car.
• She drives a black Japanese expensive sports car.
• She drives a black expensive Japanese sports car.
• She drives an expensive Japanese black sports car.
• Only 85% of the total number of applicants ________ able to pass the entrance test last
year.
• are
• was
• is
• were
• Neither Emily Bronte nor her sister ______ their real names in their writing career.
• use
• uses
• using
• has use
• The man looks ________.
• strange
• strangely
• stranger
• has strange
• A number of whale species _________ now extinct because of illegal hunting and
alarming change in sea water temperature.
• are
• is
• were
• was
• The problems that I encountered were _________ for me to handle.
• so much
• too much
• very much
• too more
• In Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanac” it was sait that. “early to bed,
______________ makes a man healthy”
• early rising
• rising early
 • early to rise
• waking up early
• Which among these words has the voiceless /th/ sound?
• These
• Mother
• Think
• There

• Which word must have the primary stress in the sentence below if we want to emphasize
possession? “That is my bag.”
• that
• is
• my
• bag
• What pitch level must be used in starting a sentence?
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• Which among the words below has the /sh/ sound?
• Vision
• Leisure
• Sure
• Salient
• Your father isn’t working anymore, __________?
• is he
• isn’t he
• has he
• hasn’t he
• This pertains to the pauses or rests in speech.
• Pitch
• Juncture
• Stress
• Intonation
• I would not leave you come hell or high water. Based on the given sentence, we can
surmise that:
• the speaker won’t leave the person no matter what
• the speaker warns the person of a forthcoming disaster
 • the speaker wants the person to give up
• the speaker wants the person to continue fighting
• Her nervousness keeps her on her toes. The underlined phrase means:
• she is always alert and cautious
• she is always ready to firth
• she is always confident
• she is always on the go
• Emily Dickinson was ostracized by her peers primarily because of her eccentric
principles. The underlined word means:
• Criticized
• Condemned
• Excluded
• Praised
• The death of Ninoy Aquino prompted conglomeration of the people from different walks
of life. The words below are synonyms of the underlined word except:
• Gathering
• Assembly
• Accumulation
• Diffusion
• For a non-believer, the noise heard during the street procession would seem cacophonous.
The underlined word means:
• Loud and unpleasant
• Loud and yet pleasant
• Soft and yet unpleasant
• Soft and pleasant
• Which among the sound below is a voiceless sound?
• /dz/
• /g/
• /z/
• /sh/
• Which among the words below does not belong?
• Conceal
• Screen
• Reveal
• Obscure
• A paragraph is believed to have coherence if:
• the sentences are all about the topic sentence
• the sentence are smoothly connected with each other through transitional devices.
• the sentence are correctly written in terms of grammar rules
• the sentences are independent
 • Aside from being a renowned writer, Carl Sanburg is also believer to have the gift of gab.
The underlined word means:
• The ability to speak clearly
• The ability to speak persuasively
• The ability to speak honestly
• The ability to speak accurately

Answer.
1. A
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. A
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. C
12. C
13. B
14. C
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. A
19. C
20. D
21. A
22. D
23. C
24. B
25. B