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Module 4 focuses on grammar essentials, including a pre-test to identify areas for review, grammar drills, and a post-test to assess improvement. It covers various grammar topics such as subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, pronouns, prepositions, idioms, and modifiers, including misplaced and dangling modifiers. The module emphasizes the importance of correct modifier placement to enhance clarity in writing.

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Module-4-Grammar-Review_____Test-Coverage

Module 4 focuses on grammar essentials, including a pre-test to identify areas for review, grammar drills, and a post-test to assess improvement. It covers various grammar topics such as subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, pronouns, prepositions, idioms, and modifiers, including misplaced and dangling modifiers. The module emphasizes the importance of correct modifier placement to enhance clarity in writing.

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Module 4

Back to Basics
(Grammar Essentials)
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:

a. Take a pre-test to know the grammar rules that


need to be
reviewed and skills to be practiced

b. Perform grammar drills

c. Pass a grammar review post test


PRE-TEST
(Source: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS: An Interactive
Approach by Paz Verdades M. Santos and Manuel Margate Jr.)
The following are 5 sets of grammar tests. Choose the word that correctly completes the sentence. For
each question, you have 1 point for correct answer(s) per number.

S-V AGREEMENT
1. If you and she (is, are) joining the seminar, so (is, am) I.
2. Everyone (have, has) a role to play in this class, so all of you (is, are) expected to do your best.
3. One of the clients (has, have) transferred her account elsewhere, but two new accounts (has, have)
come in.
4. Either he or I (is, am) likely to be appointed head of this department since no one else (is, are)
qualified for the position.
5. Though two-thirds of the population in this town (is, are) supportive of the local government’s waste
management program, those opposing it (has, have) raised valid objections.

Score: ______ / 5 = ________


VERB TENSES

1. Have you and your groupmates (discuss, discussed) our new energy conservation scheme?
Our coordinator (has been, had been) wanting to hear from us since yesterday.
2. Our group leader (checked, has checked) our progress reports for the past two weeks and it
(has, had) shown her what still has to be done.
3. You must have (drank, drunk) some of the tap water since you (had, have) such a stomach
ache now.
4. I had not even (began, begun) work on my project yet, when my teacher (assign, assigns,
assigned) me a new one.
5. The summer solstice (comes, will come) only once each year, and that (is, was) in the month
of June.

Score: ______ / 5 = ________


PRONOUNS

1. Everyone did (his/ her, their) share to ensure the project’s success.
2. The group was divided in (its, their) position on the issue.
3. The committee reiterated (its, their) decision.
4. With (who, whom) am I speaking?
5. The prize will be given to (whoever, whomever) gives the best answer.

Score: _______/5 = ______


PREPOSITIONS

1. My best friend, who has the same birthday as mine, lives (in, on) a street in
another barangay.
2. You can get (to, into) her place by walking down the street, turning left (at, in)
the intersection, then going (to, into) the first alley (on, to) your right.
3. Though we were poor (in, on) the early 2000s, the happiest day in our lives was
our eight birthday (in, on) June 18, 2008.
4. My best friend is a regular contestant in Quiz bee and she was (at, in) her best
(at, in) that last one.
5. She went to the bank and deposited her entire winnings (to, in) her savings
account.
Score: _______/ =_______
IDIOMS
1. (In spite of, despite of) my warning, she continued to come in late.
2. His tardiness (resulted to, resulted in) his temporary suspension.
3. (With regards to, As regards to) your request, we regret that we
cannot accommodate you at this time.
4. We wish to (avail, avail of) your services.
5. Our department’s performance this year is far (superior to, superior
than) that of last year’s .

Score: _______/ =________


PREPOSITIONS IN TERMS OF
TIME

At 8 o’clock
10:30
midnight
Saturday
October 27
New Year’s
On Day
Christmas Day
January
September, etc.
MONTHS In 2020
Summer
and YEARS the year of our
Lord
PREPOSITIONS IN TERMS OF
VEHICLES
Task 5

Rewrite the following statements to eliminate dangling modifiers, which is a phrase or a


clause placed next to a word that it cannot modify sensibly. You will have to restructure the
sentence to do this.

Example: Seeing that many were late, the quiz was postponed.
Seeing that many were late, the teacher decided to
postpone the quiz.

1. Conducting a synchronous session, the electricity suddenly went off.

2. Hearing the noise, my sleep was interrupted.

3. Reading the menu, the food looked delicious.

4. Listening to the radio, the news was shocking.

5. Analyzing the problem, the solution was simple.


KINDS OF MODIFIERS
The gregarious lady is admired by her
colleagues.
(adjective)

His paper has been judiciously edited before


having it published.
(adverb)
MODIFIERS
are words, phrases, or clauses that describe
other words and phrases

Kinds of Modifiers
adjectives
adverbs
prepositional phrases
clauses
• Ideally, modifiers appear next
to the word or phrase they
describe, either directly before
or after it.
However, when a modifier is
separated from the word it describes,
it becomes unclear which word it’s
supposed to modify.

In grammar, that’s a misplaced


modifier.
Misplaced modifiers should be avoided by
writers because:

1. They make the meaning of a sentence unclear


and hinder communication.

2.They can describe the wrong word or phrase,


giving your reader the wrong impression and
creating wild scenarios.
Example:
Mei napped with her cat, tired after a long day at
work.
The misplaced modifier is separated from the word
it’s supposed to describe, so the meaning of the
sentence is lost.

In the example above, the cat is tired after a long day


at work! The adjectival phrase tired after a long day at
work is next to the word cat, not Mei like it should be.

However, if we place the modifying phrase next


to the word it describes, the sentence becomes
correct.
Misplaced modifier vs. Dangling modifier

Dangling modifiers are also incorrectly used modifiers.

The main difference between misplaced modifiers and


dangling modifiers is whether the word they’re
supposed to describe is in the sentence.

•Dangling modifiers describe a word or phrase that is


not included in the sentence.
•Misplaced modifiers describe a word or phrase that is in
the sentence, but in the wrong place.
Dangling modifier:
Happy that school was over, the afternoon was quite
relaxing.
(the word students isn’t in the sentence)

Misplaced Modifier:
Happy that school was over, the afternoon was quite
relaxing
(the wordfor
it the students.
describes is there, but in the wrong place.)
In both cases, you can fix the problem by
placing the modifier next to the word or phrase
it describes.
Happy that school was over, the students thought
the afternoon was quite relaxing.
(the word students is written right after the modifier
Adjective modifiers
(wrong) There’s nothing like a chocolate cone of ice
cream on a hot day.
(correct) There’s nothing like a cone of chocolate ice
cream on a hot day.
Adverb modifiers
(wrong)We glued together the vase we broke quietly.
(correct)We quietly glued together the vase we broke.
Phrase modifiers
(wrong)My uncle had to see a doctor with indigestion.
(correct)My uncle with indigestion had to see a doctor.
Clause modifiers
(wrong) Our food stayed in the bag while it was hot.
(correct)While it was hot, our food stayed in the bag.

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