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REVISION EXRECISE 1

Question 1 : Word Classes (20 Marks)

(a) Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. State the word class of eachword in bold in the column provided. An example is given.

One day six years ago, Mei Fong (0)wet herself in a busy street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong

Kong. She was horribly (1) embarrassed. Mei Fong, now 55, first suffered from dribble

incontinence after childbirth. Urine would dribble out each time she laughed, sneezed, coughed

or even ran.

Incontinence, defined as an (2) involuntary leakage of urine, is a problem that affects both

genders, (3) although women are affected approximately twice as often as men. Pregnancy,childbirth and age are the primary culprits. But men, women and children can all be incontinent

due to injury, weak pelvic-floor muscles, birth defects and strokes.

According to Dr Nor Azhari Md Zam, from the Department of Urology at Singapore General

Hospital, the most common types of urinary incontinence are stress (4) incontinence when

there is an involuntary leakage on exertion or sneezing or coughing and urge incontinence,

where the patient has a sudden urge to void and is unable to get to the toilet in time. Urge

incontinence is not a disease in itself. It is a symptom of several diseases, (5) hence an

evaluation by a urologist is necessary, says Dr Azhari.

Urge incontinence is (6) normally related to an overactive or oversensitive bladder. (7) Some

patients may relate the triggering of symptoms or worsening symptoms to specific irritants such

as certain foods, drinks or the environment, such as cold weather.

Coffee, chocolate and cola drinks contain caffeine, which is diuretic that can increase urine

production, and (8) this may worsen the symptoms in patients withoveractive bladders.

Treatment for overactive bladders (9) includes lifestyle changes or behavioural therapy and

medications, says Dr Nor Azhari. The latest therapy is the injection of botox (10) into the

bladder, making the bladder less sensitive.

Mei Fong developed urinary incontinence probably because she didnt do urethra-contracting

exercises after childbirth. So three years ago, she began following her doctors instruction to do

regular pelvic exercises and her condition has improved markedly.


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Source: Readers Digest, October 2007

(10 marks)

(b) Each of the following sentences contains a word class error. Correct the error by rewritingthe sentence. Use word class grammar terminology to explain the error. An example isgiven.

Example:

(0) They chant that beautiful sing every morning.

Correction : They chant that beautiful song every morning.Explanation : The adjective beautiful should precede a noun

instead of a verb.

(1) Popcorn is crunchy, tastes and has fewer kilojoules than other snacks.

Correction : ___________________________________________

Explanation : ___________________________________________

(2) Though exercise may be the last thing on your mind, youll probably feel much goodafterwards.

Correction : ___________________________________________

Explanation: ___________________________________________

No. Word Word Class

(0) wet verb

(1) embarrassed

(2) involuntary

(3) although

(4) normally

(5) incontinence

(6) hence

(7) Some

(8) this

(9) includes

(10) into


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(3) If one person can make a different, imagine what the largest continent in the worldcan do.

Correction : ___________________________________________

Explanation: ___________________________________________

(4) I was touched by his love and dedicate towards refugees in Cambodia and aroundthe world.

Correction : ___________________________________________

Explanation: ___________________________________________

(5) Im angry that no one from the shopping complex came to our aidimmediately. They were slowly to act.

Correction : ___________________________________________

Explanation: ___________________________________________(10 marks)

Question 2: Verbs and Tenses (20 marks)

(a) Each of the sentences below contains an error.(i) Correct the error by rewriting the sentence.(ii) Provide the rule to explain each error.

An example is given.

(0) The rubber tappers can taps and gathers latex from the rubber trees everyday.

Correction : The rubber tappers can tap and gather latex from therubber trees every day.

Rule : The verb tap and gather after the use of the modal canshould be in the base form.

(1) The children were working in the supermarket after they failed theexamination.

Correction: __________________________________________________

Rule : __________________________________________________

(2) Azman is bathing when the telephone rang.

Correction: __________________________________________________

Rule : _________________________________________________

(3) Two thirds of the students in the college is women.

Correction: __________________________________________________


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Rule : _________________________________________________

(4) More people died in bed than anywhere else.

Correction :__________________________________________________

Rule : _________________________________________________

(5) I am sure he didnt meant to distract those girls.

Correction :_________________________________________________

Rule : _________________________________________________(10 marks)

(b) Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in the brackets in the passage below.State the tenses of the verbs which you have filled in. Write your answers in the columnprovided in the table. An example is given.

The establishment of the Cabinet Committee for Sports chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tan

Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, which involves 10 ministries, (0) ___________ (underline) the

Governments seriousness in developing sports. Football, hockey, badminton, squash, bowling,

gymnastics, aquatics and athletics (1) ____________ (identify) as the eight core sports.

The Road to London 2012 programme, however (2) ____________(focus) on a few selected

sports namely badminton, cycling, diving and archery. The athletes in these sports (3)

______________ (train) hard to achieve Malaysias first gold in the Olympics. This would be

history in the making for us.

Malaysia (4) ______________ (excel) in sports in the past. No doubt we can do better but we

must acknowledge those who have trained and worked hard in making Malaysia proud. In Beijing

2008, the Malaysian contingent (5)__________ (win) a silver medal in badminton through Datuk

Lee Chong Wei.

Adapted from Making a name in international sportsby Dato Mohd Yasin Mohd Salleh, The Star, 21 November 2009

No. Verb Verb Form Verb Tense

(0) underline underlines Simple Present

(1) identify

(2) focus

(3) train


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(10 marks)

Question 3: Phrases and Clauses (15 marks)

(a) Complete the sentences given using the types of phrases as stated in the bracket. Anexample is given.

Example:

(0) The run down house is an historical landmark of the state.(Noun Phrase)

(1) The car floated _________________________________________

(Prepositional Phrase)

(2) The dogs dragged the rubbish _____________________________

(Adverbial Phrase)

(3) He finally remembered that he was _________________________

(Adjectival Phrase)

(4) She gave him _________________________________________

(Noun Phrase)

(5) _________________________________ people lived in harmony.

(Prepositional Phrase)

(5 marks)

(b) State whether the dependant clauses in the sentences below are adverbial, adjectival ornoun clauses and provide their syntactic functions. Write your answers in the columnsprovided.An example is given.

No. SentenceType of

dependent clauseSyntactic function

(0) Example:

I was late to school because the busbroke down.

Adverbial Adverbial

(1) The lecturer announced that the

(4) excel

(5) win


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(4) she

(5) them

(5 marks)

(b) State whether the words or phrases in bold in the following sentences are logical, lexical

orgrammatical devices. An example is given.

(5 marks)Question 5: Sentence Types and Patterns (20 marks)

Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow.

From Cuddle Chemical to Love Drug

When oxytocin is released in the brain, it increases trust, decreases anxiety and somehow

helps joyously connect mother to baby and lover to lover. No wonder its often called the cuddle

chemical or the love drug. New research suggests that drugs made to stimulate oxytocin could

be useful to treat everything from anxiety disorders to autism.

Oxytocin is both a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It produces uterine contractions during

labour and later spurs the letdown of milk for nursing. In fact, many pregnant women are given a

synthetic version of the hormone during childbirth to speed things along and most of them were

No. Sentence Cohesive device

(0)Example:The bank refused to give the company more time.Consequently, it went bankrupt.

logical

(1) The man and his companion are arguing on the street. Thelatteris in tears as she is talking to him.

(2) Snatch thieves are getting bolder and bolder these days. Thepolice should act firmly against them before things get worse.

(3)We walked to the field. There we were able to practise ourvocals without disturbing others.

(4)My friends intend to go overseas to further their studies. Theyfind studying abroad more challenging.

(5) Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, laughter is goodfor the soul.


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shocked by this revelation. In the brain oxytocin has different actions than in the uterus. Most

famously, research on mouse like voices has shown that it is involved in creating pair bonding. In

prairie voles, oxytocin seems to wire in a connection between one particular partner and

pleasure. Prairie voles are monogamous creatures but promiscuous montane voles dont have

much of these crucial chemicals in their brains pleasure areas. Since for them any partner goes,

at least in voles, oxytocin and vasopressin are the stuff that love is made off. Although there has

been much speculation that humans taking oxytocin together would fall in love, in experiments

this hasnt happened in either women or men.

Adapted from Borneo Post, Nature and Health, 28 November 2009: 5.

(a) Identify foursimple sentences, three compound sentences and three complex sentencesfrom the text.

Simple sentences

(1) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(2) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(3) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(4) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

Compound Sentences

(1) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(2) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(3) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

Complex sentences


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(1) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(2) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(3) ___________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________

(10 marks)

(b) (i) Analyse the following sentences according to their elements. Parse and label theelements as follows. An example is given.

S - subject V - verb iO - indirect object dO - direct object

C - complement A adverbial

ExampleS V iO A

(0) /My mother/ has stored/ the grain/ in the wooden tub./

(1) Travelling without any luggage is a very strange experience.

(2) The postman gave my neighbour a stack of letters this morning.

(3) Michael is driving his father to Penang tomorrow.

(4) I found the coincidence hard to believe.

(5) Space exploration is ultimately about human dreams.

(5 marks)

(ii) Construct one sentence of your own for each of the following sentence patterns. An

example is given.

Example:

(0) SV - He died.

(1) SVO - ___________________________________________

(2) SVCA - ___________________________________________

(3) SVOC - ___________________________________________

(4) SVOOA - ___________________________________________


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(5) SVA - ___________________________________________

(5 marks)Question 6: Reporting structures (15 marks)

Transform the following sentences from reporting speech to reported speech. For eachtransformation, state one rule, other than the change in punctuation marks, that you haveapplied in the reported clause. You should provide evidence from the clause to support the ruleyou have stated.

Example

(0) Transformation

Rule

Evidence

:

:

:

:

Class, read your notes for the exam, the teachersaid.

The teacher told the class to read their notes forthe exam.

Change in reporting verb and pronoun.

said is changed to told, and your is changed totheir .

(1) Aisyah said, You must return your mothers call as soon as possible.

Transformation : _____________________________________

_____________________________________

Rule : _____________________________________

Evidence : _____________________________________

(2) They asked, Are we going for the camp at Kuala Kubu this morning?

Transformation : _____________________________________

_____________________________________

Rule : _____________________________________

Evidence : _____________________________________

(3) I lost my beautiful Omega watch, Mr. Bakar said.

Transformation : _____________________________________

_____________________________________

Rule : _____________________________________

Evidence : _____________________________________

(4) Watch out! There are ants under this tree! said Alex to Ruhiya.


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Transformation : _____________________________________

_____________________________________

Rule : _____________________________________

Evidence : _____________________________________

(5) The students said, We did our work last night and worked till the wee hours of morning.

Transformation : _____________________________________

_____________________________________

Rule : _____________________________________

Evidence : _____________________________________

(15 marks)

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