GRAMMAR or STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH ship.

Test-based Material C. I have never tried traveling in a boat.

D. My first time on the plane was mind-blowing.
Directions: Each of the questions or statements 11. Former President Noynoy Aquino complained that
below is followed by four-five choices or completions. he was not given the 100-day honeymoon from
Encircle the letter of the one that is best in each case. carping ____.
A. critics C. criticism
1. Which of the following concepts in grammar is B. critiques D. critically
shown in the following definition of noun?
“Noun in a sentence occurs before the verb 12. Which will correctly complete this sentence, “When
phrase; after a transitive verb; after a linking verb; the war is over, no nation will _____.”
after a preposition; and after another noun or noun A. either be isolated in war or peace
phrase. B. be either isolated in war or peace
A. syntax C. noun placement C. be isolated in neither war nor peace
B. distribution D. grammatical pattern D. be isolated in either war or peace

2. Which word in the choices is NOT used as a noun? 13. Yesterday, my teacher asked, “Did the coach of
Ana offered her friend’s sister an assistance to the last contestant in the national impromptu speaking
satisfy her mother urges. contest _____ to cheat?”
A. sister C. mother A. try C. has tried
B. assistance D. urges B. tried D. had tried

3. Which word in the choices is NOT an adjective? 14. Why have the teacher-applicants of a particular
“It is an interesting, but a difficult question. I am division in NCR ____ a letter of complaint to the
not sure if I have done it right. regional director?
A. difficult C. right A. wrote C. written
B. sure D. interesting B. writing D. had written

4. Which word in the choices is NOT used as a verb? 15. The transferee speaks more fluently than ____.
“The two artists seem to understand what you A. I C. she
have painted, but I am not sure I know.” B. me D. her
A. seem C. have
B. am D. understand 16. Between you and ____, I think he is rather
disloyal.
5. For behavioral psychologists in the 1950’s A. I C. mine
knowledge of linguistic features ____ very necessary B. me D. I or me
for comprehension to take place.
A. is B. was 17. Which is NOT prescriptively correct?
C. are D. were A. Whom are you writing to?
B. For whom did you buy this gift?
6. In the Philippines, an increasing number of C. Who can we turn to in a time of crisis?
commuters ______ immune from the perils of city life. D. Who sat down at the kitchen table?
A. that believe their families are
B. believes their families are 18. The players were _____, but the coaches were
C. who believe their families to be ______.
D. believe their families to be A. them, us C. them, we
B. they, we D. they, us
7. Only the good _____ very young.
A. die C. has been dying 19. What is shown in the underlined words in this
B. dies D. have been dying sentence?
“Absolute adjectives do not admit comparisons,
8. Which of the following sentences contains words neither do they occur with intensifiers.”
that, in the opinion of most native English speakers, A. affirmative uninversion
should not be used together? B. affirmative inversion
A. I went to bed. C. negative uninversion
B. I took my medicine. D. negative inversion
C. We ate dinner at home.
D. My husband did the dishes. Directions:
Each sentence is divided into four parts marked A, B,
9. Which does NOT use preposition correctly? C, and D. Identify the part that must be changed to
A. She read it in a book. make the sentence correct.
B. Did you see it in the newspaper?
C. I heard a new song on the radio. 20.
D. We found American English resources in the A. Before the advent
Internet. B. of modern surgical techniques,
C. bleeding patients with leeches
10. The following sentences use prepositions correctly D. were considered therapeutically effective.
EXCEPT:
A. I told my mom that I would wait in the car.
B. I noticed that there were many foreigners in the
21. Mario, my gay friend and classmate in college,
wishes he ____ a woman.
A. is C. were
B. was D. could be

22. The man in blue shirt speaks as if he ____ an

expert in language.
A. was C. has been
B. were D. seems to be

23. If my grandfather ______ alive he would not like

the world we live in.
A. is C. has been alive
B. were D. would have been

24. It is about time that we _____ number one.

A. become C. must become
B. became D. should become

25. They barely recognized the President at the

party, _____?
A. did they C. don’t they
B. didn’t they D. do they

26. The professor will have written internationally

acclaimed poems by the time he _____.
A. resigns C. will resign
B. resigned D. will have resigned

27. The sentence “During his command, Captain

Queeg also failed to give any suitable orders or to
exhibit any bravery during adverse situations” follows
____ pattern.
A. N InV C. N TrV N
B. N LV Adj. D. N InV Adv.

28. Which pair of verbs will correctly complete the

following sentence?
If I ______ that learning Russian was going to be so
difficult, I _______ that course.
A. know / would never take
B. knew / will never take
C. knew / would never have taken
D. had known / would never have taken

29. Elsa is fast, ___ in her track and field batch on the
National Team.
A. if not as fast as anyone
B. if not faster than anyone else
C. if not faster than anyone
D. if not faster as anyone else

30. The sentence which has incorrectly matched word

with the part of speech is _____.
A. Paul Torres somehow found room in his small
house for the large family he had fathered. (verb)
B. You may choose either answer. (adjective)
C. They are on friendly terms with their neighbors.
(pronoun)
D. She often offered to babysit for friends, hoping to
satisfy her mother urges until she had children of
her own. (adjective)