REMOVAL EXAM

ENGLISH 1
ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS 1
NOVEMBER 11, 2013

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IDENTIFICATION
Write your answer before each number.

This noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or a thing such as the names of days of the week,
months, historical documents, institutions, organizations, and religions.
A noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense. Only written in a capital letter when it begins
the sentence.
A noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can perceive through your physical senses: touch, sight,
taste, hearing, or smell.
A noun which names anything that you can not perceive through your five physical senses.
A noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons.
A noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) that you can count.
The noun or other pronoun being replaced.
Its means it is or it has while Its means?
A word which describes the action in a sentence (the doing word).
A type of action verb that refers to action that can be seen by other people.
Ex. The gardener feeds the ducks.
A type of action verb that refers to action that cannot be seen by other people.
Ex. She likes the migrating birds best.
A verb that expresses a state of being and connects the subject with a noun or an adjective in the predicate that
names or describes the subject.
When fixing an agreement error, we try to avoid this kind of language in order not to offend the readers.
A verb that always precede main verbs within a verb phrase. Otherwise known as helping verbs.
TRUE or FALSE: Two or more singular things joined by and become a singular antecedent.
TRUE or FALSE: When each or every precedes two [or more] singular things joined by and, a plural
antecedent is formed.
TRUE or FALSE: When using either - or, neither - nor, and not only - but also, of the two antecedents in
the sentence, the pronoun must agree with the farther one.
TRUE or FALSE: A writer who begins with he or she or him or her will need to be inconsistent throughout
the paper.
TRUE or FALSE: Companies, organizations, and schools are singular and thus require plural pronouns.
TRUE or FALSE: Some indefinite pronouns are singular or plural, depending on context.
A process in word formation which combines two or more words to form a new word without any deletion of
letters.
Assigning an already existing word to a new syntactic category.
Also known as coinage. These are words derived from proper names or things.
Words created to sound like the thing that they name
Words derived from the initials of several words
Combines two or more words to form a new word with deletion of letters.
Shortening a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables
These adjectives are used to describe the nature of a noun. They give an idea about the characteristics of the
noun by answering the question what kind?
These adjectives are used to ask questions about nouns or in relation to nouns.
These adjectives are used to point out or indicate a particular noun or pronoun.

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These adjectives do not give an exact numerical amount but give a general idea of the amount.
These adjectives refer to individual nouns within the whole amount or group.
It shows the concept of Permission, Ability, Obligation, Probability, Lack of Necessity, Advice, Possibility,
and Prohibition.
It modifies verb by telling us how the action occurs, where the action occurs, how many times the action
occur, and the intensity of the action.
These are words that describe, quantify, qualify, and identify nouns and pronouns.
II. Essay

1. Explain: The importance of the English language in the lives of people.

2. What are the things that you will do in order for you to improve and be a better student?
3. Give reasons why your teacher should let you pass.