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Try answering these items and check if you can still remember the grammar rules you’ve learned way,
way back.

1. Which sentence is incorrectly punctuated?

A. He already left the house that morning but he forgot his project in TLE.

B. The reference configurations are easy to deploy, manage, and upgrade.

C. Tea lovers may have a hard time sleeping, for the caffeine in tea stimulates the nervous system.

D. When conducting a lab experiment, make sure that you have the tools, the specimen and the
experiment sheet.

2. Which of the following sentences contains an appositive?

A. Lito, the boy who returned the wallet he found, was praised by his teachers.

B. This sentence contains a subject, a verb and a direct object.

C. If you happen to meet her, please tell her the directors are in the conference room.

D. I want to buy that pretty skirt, which is on sale today.

3. Which of the sentences below contains the correct preposition?

A. His controversial statement will result to a lot of criticism.

B. Let’s meet at around three o’clock.

C. Can I ask a favor of you?

D. It’s difficult to cope up the situation.

4. Which sentence states the idea clearly and has no structural error?

A. Red, Gina and I will be going to the party on Sunday.

B. Me and Mila should start working on our thesis.

C. He hadn’t been him self lately.

D. The book which is on the desk is mine.

5. Supply the missing verb: The student was sad because he was ________ for his late submission of his
school project.

A. called off

B. called up

C. called back

D. called down

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Answers

A (A comma should be placed before “but” because it is a compound sentence. Remember to add a
comma when two independent clauses are joined by the FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions).

A (An appositive is set off by commas. “the boy who returned the wallet he found” is an appositive.)

C (A. “result to” should be “result in”; B. “at around” is wrong. “At” means exact while “around” is an
estimate. We can either say “at three o’clock” or “around three o’clock.”; D. “cope up” should be “cope
with”. C. We usually hear people say “favor from you”, but “favor of you” is correct [check Celce-Murcia’s
The Grammar Book].)

A (B.“Me and Mila” should be “Mila and I” because the pronoun is in the subject position; C. “him self”
should be “himself”; D. “which is on the desk” is an appositive, therefore, it should be set off by
commas.

D (A. Called off means to cancel; B. Call up means to bring up/retrieve from memory; C. Call back means
to return call; D. call down means to reprimand)