Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer.

Write the chosen letter on a

separate sheet of paper.
 
1. Which among the sentences shows strong obligation?
a. Thy head shall be severed from thy neck.
b. And he further ordained that the voice of the bell should be strengthened with brass and
deepened with gold.
c. Gold and brass will never meet in wedlock.
d. The sound thereof might be heard for one hundred li.

2.  Which of the following uses the modal “must” to give an advice?

a. All men must be sad after the death of the official’s daughter.
b. I must admit, that the bell was beautiful.
c. The Emperor must follow Celestial August.
d. Ko-Ngai must be happy with her decision of saving his father’s life.

 
3. Which among the sentences does not use adverb of manner?
a. And they labored exceedingly, like giants, neglecting rest and sleep and the comforts of life.
b. Still the metals obstinately refused to blend, one with the other.
c. Ko-Ngai returned home sorrowful at heart, but she kept secret all that she had heard and
told no one
what she had done.
d. All the work tediously and tiresomely repeated.
 
4. Which of the sentences below does NOT used an adverb?
a. It had been totally absorbed by the precious alloy and blended with the brass and gold.
b. There was no sign of the beautiful body that had been entombed.
c. She leaped into the white flood of metal.
d. They treated them skillfully and prepared the bel to sound through all the many-colored wats
of the imperial capital.
 

 
5. How many nouns are used in the sentence “At last came that awful day when the third
and last effort to cast the great bell was to be made; and Ko-Ngai, accompanied her father
to the foundry.”
a. 7
b. 6
c. 5
d. 4
 

 
Modal Verbs
Look and observe the sentences that can be formed The underlined words are called modal verbs.
from the situation given in the previous activity. Modals are different from normal verbs:
What can you notice with the underlined words?  They don't use an 's' for the third
How do they function in the sentence?
person singular.
1. The manager might be angry.  They make questions by inversion ('she
2. The secretary should correct the error in the can go' becomes 'can she go?').
report.  They are followed directly by the
3. The guy must finish the project assigned to infinitive of another verb (without 'to').
him as soon as possible.
4. The secretary said, “May I disturb you
ma’am?”
5. The guy may not finish the project on the
expected date.