NAME: ____________________________________________________ DATE: _______________

Pre-test in English
A. Direction: Write C if it is Connotative and D if it is Denotative.
____1. At dawn, the beauty of nature starts to unfold.
____2. her first piano performance served as the dawn of her career.
____3. her three daughters are her life’s roses.
____4. mrs. Santos grows lovely roses in her wide garden.

____5. miners carry a lamp before entering a dark cave.

B. Choose the verb in the parenthesis that agrees with the subject. Underline your answer.
1. Memoranda about conserving water (is, are) sent to all schools.

2. The school curriculum (include, includes) topics on environmental awareness.

3. Both men and women (take,takes) part in promoting conservation of natural resources.
4. Children in school also (show, shows) support by practicing water and energy-saving habits.
5. The alumni of the school (is, are) one in campaigning for environment-friendly programs.

6. Different means of conservation (is, are) discussed in forums and seminars.

7. Research analyses done by environmentalists (discuss, discusses) the serious need for citizens to act
accordingly.
8. The primary basis of these analyses (is, are) the alarming effects of natural calamities and disasters.
9. Data (is, are) presented very clearly.
10. Environmentalists give syntheses that (awaken, awakens) citizens’ concern for the environment.

C. Pick-out the collective noun in each sentence. Write your answer before the number.
__________1. a company of actors goes to a jungle for a movie shoot.
__________2. colonies of beavers, anteaters, and bats thrive in that jungle.

__________3. soon, a knot of toads begins to croak aloud.

__________4. the crew of cameramen and camerawomen begin their job.
__________5. but then, a leap of leopards frightens the movie people who decide to leave the jungle
immediately.

NAME: ____________________________________________________ DATE: _______________

Pre-test in English
D. Direction: Write C if it is Connotative and D if it is Denotative.
____1. At dawn, the beauty of nature starts to unfold.
____2. her first piano performance served as the dawn of her career.
 ____3. her three daughters are her life’s roses.
____4. mrs. Santos grows lovely roses in her wide garden.
____5. miners carry a lamp before entering a dark cave.

E. Choose the verb in the parenthesis that agrees with the subject. Underline your answer.
11. Memoranda about conserving water (is, are) sent to all schools.
12. The school curriculum (include, includes) topics on environmental awareness.

13. Both men and women (take,takes) part in promoting conservation of natural resources.
14. Children in school also (show, shows) support by practicing water and energy-saving habits.
15. The alumni of the school (is, are) one in campaigning for environment-friendly programs.
16. Different means of conservation (is, are) discussed in forums and seminars.

17. Research analyses done by environmentalists (discuss, discusses) the serious need for citizens to act
accordingly.

18. The primary basis of these analyses (is, are) the alarming effects of natural calamities and disasters.
19. Data (is, are) presented very clearly.
20. Environmentalists give syntheses that (awaken, awakens) citizens’ concern for the environment.

F. Pick-out the collective noun in each sentence. Write your answer before the number.
__________1. a company of actors goes to a jungle for a movie shoot.
__________2. colonies of beavers, anteaters, and bats thrive in that jungle.
__________3. soon, a knot of toads begins to croak aloud.

__________4. the crew of cameramen and camerawomen begin their job.

__________5. but then, a leap of leopards frightens the movie people who decide to leave the jungle
immediately.