Name:

Age:
☐ 17 and below
☐ 18-20
☐ 21-23
☐ 24-26
☐ 27-29
☐ 30 and above
Sex:
☐ Male
☐ Female
Last School Attended:
☐ Private
☐ Public
Course-Major:
☐ BEED
☐ BSED

PART I: SYNTAX
Directions: Read each questions carefully and shade in your answer on the
answer sheet.
A. Simple and compound sentences ○ It's a compound sentence.
1. Is this a simple or a compound 3. Choose the simple sentence.
sentence? "Anna poured sugar in her
○ Inspector De Ray looked for
coffee."
fingerprints.
○ It's a simple sentence.
○ Inspector De Ray looked around, but
○ It's a compound sentence. he couldn't find any fingerprints.
2. Is this a simple or a compound 4. Is this a simple or a compound
sentence? "The pirates demanded sentence? "The lake holds more than
treasure, and they also demanded secrets; it's good for fishing too!"
pie."
○ It’s a compound sentence.
○ It's a simple sentence.
○ It’s a simple sentence.

B. Complex and compound-complex sentences

1. Which of these options is a favorite food because she loves the
compound-complex sentence? variety of toppings that can go on it.
○ I'd like to visit Quebec, but because I 3. Which of these options is a
don't speak French, I'll have to start complex sentence?
learning.
○ I've never made salami at home, but
○ I'd like to visit Quebec, but I will have I'm convinced I have to try it.
to start learning French for my trip there.
○ Although I have never made salami at
2. Combine these parts to make a home, I'm willing to give it a shot.
logical compound-complex sentence.
4. Combine these parts to make a
1. Although she doesn't like the logical compound-complex sentence.
vegetarian kind
1. Although I drank a lot of coffee
2. Pizza is Altansarnai's favorite food
2. And I don't think I'll make it through
3. She loves the variety of toppings that the movie
can go on it
3. I'm getting sleepy
○ Although she doesn't like the
○ Although I drank a lot of coffee, I'm
vegetarian kind, pizza is Altansarnai's
getting sleepy, and I don't think I'll make
favorite food; she loves the variety of it through the movie.
toppings that can go on it.
○ Although I drank a lot of coffee, and I
○ Although she doesn't like the don't think I'll make it through the movie,
vegetarian kind, pizza is Altansarnai's I'm getting sleepy.

C. Declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences

1. Identify whether the sentence is a ○ It's a question
statement, a question, or an order.
○ It's an order
"Where did you get those stilts?"
3. Identify whether the sentence is a
○ It's a statement statement, a question, or an order.
○ It's a question "It's too hot outside today."
○ It's an order ○ It's a statement
2. Identify whether the sentence is a ○ It's a question
statement, a question, or an order.
○ It's an order
"What was the name of the first
4. Identify whether the sentence is a
civilization on Earth?"
statement, a question, or an order.
○ It's a statement
"At night, all Hudson could hear were ○ It's a question
the bullfrogs."
○ It's an order
○ It's a statement

D. Identifying subject and predicate

1. Identify the subject of the following 3. Identify the predicate of the
sentence. following sentence.
"Simone found a gold coin in her "My buddy Dave will put literally
backyard." anything on a pizza."
○ Simone ○ my buddy Dave
○ found a gold coin ○ anything on a pizza
○ found a gold coin in her backyard ○ will put literally anything on a pizza
2. Identify the predicate of the 4. Choose whether the bolded part of
following sentence the sentence is the subject or the
predicate.
"Orchids, pale and silvery, grew on the
branches of trees." "The cowboys' singing echoed through
the canyon."
○ Orchids, pale and silvery
○ subject
○ pale and silvery, grew on the
branches of trees ○ predicate
○ grew on the branches of trees ○ subject and predicate
E. Identifying subject, direct object, and indirect object
1. Choose whether the bolded part of "Marbeya bought me new sunglasses
the sentence is the subject, direct after mine broke."
object, or
○ Marbeya
indirect object.
○ Sunglasses
"I threw the ball to Yvonne."
○ mine
○ Subject
○ indirect object
○ direct object
2. Choose the direct object in this
3. Choose the subject in this
sentence.
sentence.
"Your dog ran away with your hat in his 4. Choose the indirect object in this
mouth!" sentence.
○ Dog "The court sent me a letter."
○ hat ○ Court
○ mouth ○ Letter
○ me

PART II: VOCABULARY

Directions: Look at the word and an example of the word in use. Choose the
meaning that most closely matches the highlighted words in the example
sentence. If you have never seen the word before, select I don't know
1. write ○ time of fighting
Please write it here. ○ time of the year when it is hot
○ cut into pieces ○ I don’t know
○ move to a new place 4. round
○ make something better It is round.
○ make words on paper ○ Very quick
○ I don’t know ○ friendly
2. weep ○ like a circle
He wept. ○ very big
○ finished his course ○ I don’t know
○ died 5. devastated
○ worried The city was devastated.
○ cried ○ made dirty and unpleasant by small
animals
○ I don’t know
○ turned into ruins
3. past
○ made beautiful for a special occasion
It happened in the past.
○ cut off from the rest of the world
○ time when it is dark time
○ I don’t know
○ before now
6. fragile
These things are very fragile. They went to the gala.
○ popular ○ large shop
○ precious ○ place where paintings can be viewed
○ easily broken ○ public party or celebration
○ hard to find ○ a car show
○ I don’t know ○ I don’t know
7. competent 11. stag
She was very competent. They found a stag.
○ easily hurt ○ small problem
○ fond of winning ○ small three-sided flag
○ angry ○ piece of money
○ efficient ○ male deer
○ I don’t know ○ I don’t know
8. depart 12. weave
She departed yesterday. She knows how to weave.
○ said no ○ join pieces of metal together
○ went down a hill ○ make cloth from crossed threads
○ got worse ○ deceive people
○ went away ○ persuade people
○ I don’t know ○ I don’t know
9. mash 13. hush
We mashed the food. There was a hush.
○ Threw out ○ Loud noise
○ cooked ○ commotion
○ ate ○ to become quiet
○ crushed ○ a soft whisper
○ I don’t know ○ I don’t know
10. gala 14. diminish
It has diminished. ○ used their money carefully
○ got darker ○ felt very sad
○ become cloudy ○ I don’t know
○ got smaller 18. discontent
○ grown colder She showed her discontent.
○ I don’t know ○ that she did not approve
15. crook ○ her unhappiness
They were crooks. ○ that she could be careful in what she
said or did
○ people with ordinary heads but very
small bodies ○ her pain
○ people who cannot walk ○ I don’t know
○ dishonest people 19. prophet
○ people who prepare food He is a prophet.
○ I don’t know ○ person who plays music
16. wilderness ○ person kept in a prison
It is a wilderness. ○ person who tells what will happen
○ a place in its natural state ○ person who entertain
○ an event that is not easily explained ○ I don’t know
○ an exciting event 20. sprawl
○ a place with many people They sprawled on the floor.
○ I don’t know ○ moved on hands and knees
17. mourn ○ slept without a bed
They mourned for several years. ○ lay with their arms and legs spread
out
○ performed on the street
○ had a fight holding each other tightly
○ worked hard
○ I don’t know
SET A. Identification Task
Kirby, Deacon, Bowers, Izenberg, Wade-
Woolley, & Parrila (2012)
Directions: In this task the four answer choices are not real words. They are
nonsense words. Nevertheless, one of these nonsense words makes a good
sentence. The other three do not. You decide which word is the best one to fill in
the blank. Circle the letter of your answer.
1. I could feel the ______. 6. The meeting was very _______.
A. froodly B. froodful A. lorialize B. lorial
C. frooden D. froodness C. lorialism D. lorify
2. What a completely ______ idea. 7. I just heard a _______ story.
A. tribacious B. tribicism A. dantment B. dantive
C. tribacize D. tribation C. danticism D. dantify
3. I admire her ______. 8. Dr. Smith is a famous _______.
A. sufilive B. sufilify A. cicarist B. cicarize
C. sufilation D. sufilize C. cicarify D. cicarial
4. Where do they ______ the money? 9. Can you _______ both sides?
A. curfamic B. curfamity A. romify B. romity
C. curfamate D. curfamation C. romious D. romative
5. Please ______. 10. He has too much _______.
A. scriptial B. scriptize A. brinable B. brinicity
C. scriptist D. scriptious C. brinify D. brinicious
SET B. Test of Morphological Structure: Derivation Carlisle (2000)
Directions: Supply the sentence with an appropriate answer based on the given
word.
Practice A: Farm. My uncle is a farmer.
Practice B: Help. My sister is always helpful.
1. warm He chose the jacket for its _________ .
2. teach He is a very good _________ .
3. permit Father refused to give _________.
4. profit Selling lemonade in summer is _________,
5. appear He cared about his _________ .
6. express OK' is a common _________.
7. four The cyclist came in _________.
8. remark The speed of the car was _________.
9. protect She wore glasses for _________.
10. perform Tonight is the last _________.