MPU3022 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY (Sem 1_non-TESL)

Parts of speech
Exercise 1
Underline the nouns
Carol is a married woman. She loves Western food a lot, especially hamburgers. She does
not like Indian food because she says it is too spicy . However, she likes mutton curry.

Exercise 2
Underline the pronouns
Mr. Smith is a barber. He has his own shop in Seremban town. Many people like to get a
haircut from him because he is too good at it. His charges are also very reasonable and he
knows how to entertain them.

Exercise 3
In each sentence one word is missing. Write a noun or a pronoun to complete the sentence.
1. Mala can drive his father’s car.
2. My cat likes to chase a mouse.
3. We can watch the last episode of the video tonight.
4. Sam's baby drank six bottles of milk yesterday.
5. I believe you can pass his test tomorrow.
6. Azman and Ali do not like to eat fried chicken.
7. Lee Chong Wei is Malaysia’s best badminton player.
8. I managed to cook for my mother, her favourite meal today.
9. May I look at your Gucci bag?
10. Can you pass me that exercise book?

Exercise 4
Underline the verbs.
1. My husband watered the plants.
2. She goes to work every day.
3. Mr. Lee reads newspaper every morning.
4. We bought a big house last year.
5. Mary laughed very loudly.
(con’t) verbs
6. My family visited our uncle, who is sick, in Russia.
7. Vino sings very sweetly.
8. They can act well.
9. Miss Molly walks in the garden every evening.
10. The boys washed their teacher’s car.

Exercise 5
Underline the verb that best completes each sentence.
1. We shall (leave, left) for the show by 10.00pm.
2. You should (meet, met) my mother.
3. I can’t (draw, drew) like my art teacher.
4. Please (watch, watched ) that movie tonight.
5. Do you think that girl will (look, looked) at me?
6. My little brother (do, did) not finish his homework because he was playing.
7. Monica (take, took) her sister to the doctor for treatment.
8. The handbag (was, were) given to me by Jeevan.
9. While I (was, were) cooking, the phone rang and I missed it.
10. Diwi (buy, bought) a new dress for her daughter.

Exercise 6
All the words in the box are adverbs. Choose one word to fill each blank.

slowly recklessly quickly awful loudly hurriedly badly careful terribly seriously softly

1. The taxi driver was terribly injured.

2. Our professor drove recklessly after a few drinks.
3. This laksa tastes badly.
4. Be careful with the gift, its fragile.
5. Sherin left hurriedly after college just now. What happened to her?
6. Harish talked softly over the phone.
7. Our football team played seriously last Saturday.
8. Don’t speak loudly. My baby is sleeping.
9. The robber slowly opened the door.
10. Walk quickly. It’s going to rain.
Exercise 7
Write an adjective on each line to describe the car.
Grey color Pretty Big

expensive Circle lamp

new powerful best

Exercise 8
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate conjunctions.
1. Although he tried hard, he failed to get through the security.
2. Wait here until tell you to move.
3. Take your umbrella because it is going to rain.
4. Sazali is slow but smart.
5. Since he was ill, he had to stay at home.
6. I shall not ride in his carriage although invited.
7. Be kind so that you will be rewarded.
8. Not only Azlan but also his wife are attending the ceremony.
9. As soon as he is ready, bring down the cake.
10. He is either here or there.

Exercise 9
Read the sentences below and fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions.
1. She stood near the window and looked out as if waiting for someone.
2. Tina spilt some orange juice on her pants.
3. The letter N comes before O and P in the alphabet.
4. We can hardly see planes in the sky because they normally fly above the clouds.
(con’t) prepositions
5. I had to wait for a long time at the checkout line of the grocery store because the lady
in front of me had bought a lot of groceries
6. Nazim was away for a long time because he travelled round Europe for six months
last year.
7. He does not speak English. Do you think he can speak the language in two months?
8. We were sitting in front of this group of friends at the movie theatre. They could not
stop talking from the time the movie started to the time it ended.
9. If you want to go to the park, you will have to drive by the Farmer’s Market Grocery
Store, across the bridge and along the corner of West Street, you will see it on your left.
10. David ran into the house next door to help his neighbour when he saw a suspicious-
looking man lurking around outside the house.

Exercise 10
Provide an appropriate interjection for each sentence.
(example) (to express displeasure) That tastes disgusting.
(answer) Yuck! That tastes disgusting.
1. (pain) That looked like it hurt.
Ahhh! That looked like it hurt.
2. (anger) That’s my bike!
Grrr! That’s my bike!
3. (surprise) You scared me!
Eh! You scared me!

prepared by:
Mr Mohd Syam
Lecturer of Lang. Dept.
IPG Kampus Gaya
Kota Kinabalu