Preliminary Examinations in English I

First Sem, A.Y. 2014-2015

Name: _______________________
Section: _____________________

Date: ___________
Score: __________

Part 1. Choose the PART OF SPEECH that BEST describes the underlined word/words. Write the
letter in your answer sheet. (2 pts each)
1. The students wanted to go on a field trip.
L. common noun
U. verb
A. proper noun
2. Can we go to the Adventureville Theme Park?
A. noun
V. verb
E.pronoun
3. Be on your best behavior for the next two weeks.
C. possessive noun
F. possessive pronoun
N. objective pronoun
4. After a couple long weeks of keeping their hands to themselves, quietly focusing on
instruction, and cleaning up their messes, the students were rewarded with a fieldtrip.
U. helping verb
T. action verb
B. pronoun
5. We are so excited about going to Adventureville!
B. personal pronoun
C. object pronoun
Y. possessive pronoun
6. How far away the park from the school is and what time do we have to come home?
F. proper noun
E. common noun
I. abstract noun
7. But, the park is three hours away from the school and well have to be back by 3:00 for the
busses!
I. count noun
V. proper noun
C. collective noun
8. Quit asking questions and just be happy.
T. action verb
N. common noun
U. helping verb
9. But, if it takes us six hours to get there and back, and we have to be back by 3:00, well only
be able to stay for thirty minutes.
F. object pronoun
Y. possessive pronoun
E. subject pronoun
10. The students wondered why they were going to Adventureville.
A. linking verb
C. helping verb
B. actual verb
11. This world is a mighty big place.
N. Noun
F. Verb
E. Adjective
12. Please hand me that pitcher.
C. verb
U. pronoun
E. linking verb
13. Mom made my sister a beautiful quilt.
P. concrete noun
T. collective noun
R. Abstract noun
14. Mandy entered her huge pumpkin in the fair.
M. proper noun
I. abstract noun
E. common noun

15. I nervously handed my grades to my father.

A. subject pronoun
L. possessive pronoun
M. demonstrative pronoun
16. I cant find my shoes.
T. collective noun
R. common noun
B. verb
17. History is my favorite subject.
U. action verb
A. linking verb
C. transitive verb
18. Three students were chosen to go to the spelling bee finals.
M. action verb
V. helping verb
T. linking verb
19. Can we go to the concert tonight?
P. possessive noun
C. plural noun
Y. singular noun
20. Give your brother his bat.
T. collective noun
F. common noun
N. plural noun
21. It will take all of your energy and will to be able to walk again.
E. linking verb
C. helping verb
L. action verb
22. The works of many great poets have been placed on reserve.
P. helping verb
D. linking verb
N. action verb
23. The Brooklyn Bridge was opened in 1883.
O. proper noun
N. common noun
P. collective noun
24. Beths clothes are muddy.
P. action verb
F. helping verb
Y. linking verb
25. Sharks and lampreys are not true fish because their skeletons are made of cartilage rather than
bone.
L. common noun
U. plural noun
C. singular noun
26. Joe, have you met your new boss?
T. linking verb
C. helping verb
V. action verb
27. Sue's parents tried living in the north, but they could not adapt to the cold.
L. possessive pronoun
I. possessive noun-singular
T. possessive noun-plural
28. Mastering basic mathematics is an important goal for younger students.
N. possessive noun-singular
Y. possessive noun-plural
A. possessive pronoun
29. To seize a foreign embassy and its inhabitants is flagrant disregard for diplomatic neutrality.
U. singular noun
A. plural noun
B. collective noun
30. The Trojans' rash decision to accept the wooden horse led to their destruction.
R. possessive noun-plural
T. possessive noun-singular
O. possessive pronoun
Complete the following phrase using your answers above. (5 points)
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the 6-N-V-I-2-5-L-E opportunity to learn to know the liberating
I-28-F-L-4-E-N-12-E of beauty in the 16-E-A-15-M of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the
22-R-23-3-I-T of the 21-O-M-18-1-N-I-T-24 to which your later work belongs." Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)

Part 2. Read the following paragraph and classify the underline verbs.