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LANGUAGE ARTS EXAM
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Selected statements shall be answered True or False. Please note that the statements making up those examinations may or may not be related to any summary that you have submitted for this subject.
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LANGUAGE ARTS EXAM
STUDENTS SELECT 15 QUESTIONS FROM THE LIST
It is required that from the 15 questions selected from each exam, the student must correctly answer a minimum of 12 to approve the subject. If less than 12 correctly answered, the student must select the same number of questions failed from the list to complete 12. Example: you correctly answered 10, therefore you need 2 more correct answers to approve the subject. You may continue your selection as many times needed until approval.
L.01. Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, and language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
L.02. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. There are three aspects to this study: language form. Language meaning and language in context. In linguistics, human language is a system of sounds. Symbols and meaning.
L.03. Linguistics also includes the study of other aspects like the influence of social, cultural, historical and political factors on language.
L.04. Grammar is a system of rules which govern the language of a particular speech community. It encompasses of sound, meaning, and gestures, and includes phonology (how sounds and gestures function together), morphology (the formation and composition of words), and syntax (the formation and composition of phrases and sentences from words).
L.05. The formal study of language has also led to the growth of fields like psycholinguistics, which explores the representation and function of language in the mind; Neurolinguistics, which studies language processing in the brain; and language acquisition, which investigates how children and adults acquire a particular language.
L.06. A dialect is a variety of language that is characteristic of a particular group among the language speakers. The groups of people who are the speakers of a dialect are usually bound to each other by social identity.
L.07. Estimates of the number of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects.
L.08. Semantics (from Ancient Greek: σημαντικόc sēmantikas, “significant”) is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, like words, phrases, signs, and symbols, and what they stand for.
L.09. Language arts are the generic name given to the study and improvement of the arts of language.
L.10. Traditionally, the primary divisions in language arts are literature and language, where language in this case refers to both linguistics,
L.11. According to the International Council of Teachers of English, the five strands of the language arts are reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
L.12. Reading, by definition, is the ability and knowledge of a language that allows comprehension by grasping the meaning of written or printed characters, words, or sentences. Reading involves a wide variety of print and nonprint texts that helps a reader gain an understanding of what is being read.
L.13. Composition is defined as the combination of distinct parts or elements to form a whole and the manner in which these elements are combined or related. The following are examples of composing in Language Arts.
L.14. an essay is a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative). There are many types of short essays.
L.15. Reading of texts that are often included in educational curriculum includes fiction, nonfiction, classic, and also contemporary works. Reading goes beyond calling words to understanding the information presented in a written or a visual context.
L.16. the first word in a sentence is always capitalized.
L.17. Proper nouns are always capitalized.
L.18. Titles are capitalized when they appear before a name. They are not usually capitalized when they follow a name or are used without a name, unless they belong to a high office holder.
L.19. Names of seasons such as: spring, summer, fall, and winter are not capitalized.
L.20.There are three common end marks: the period, the exclamation mark, and the question mark.
L.21. Commas are used in various ways, mainly, to separate phrases or items within a statement.
L.22. A sentence always has two parts: a subject and a predicate. A predicate contains a verb. If one of these components is missing, the sentence is incomplete. It is a sentence fragment.
L.23. Spoken English often differs from written English. Spoken English tends to be more casual and informal. But when you are editing a text, you need to eliminate these less formal and nonstandard words or expressions in order to make the written text more formal.
L.24. Contractions are not used as much in written Standard English. It is best to use two complete words, so isn’t should be is not and aren’t should be are not.
L.25. Slang should not be used in formal written Standard English. For example, the expression wassup? Should be changed to what is going on? or what is happening?
L.26. In any sentence that you write, the verb must agree with the subject. To make sure that the verb and subject agree, you must first know whether the subject is singular (one person or thing) or plural (more than one person or thing).
L.27. A word group that describes another word in a sentence and that has its own subject and verb is called an adjective clause. The verb in an adjective clause must agree with the subject. The subject of an adjective is often a relative pronoun such as that or which. The number of the relative pronoun subject depends on the number of its antecedent in the main clause.
L.28. A noun that names a group is a collective noun. Consider a collective noun singular when it refers to a group as a whole. Consider a collective noun plural when it refers to each member of a group individually.
L.29. The simple future tense is always formed by inserting the word will before the verb. The simple past tense for regular verbs is formed by adding ed, or d, if the verb ends in e. If a verb ends in y , change the y to I and added.
L.30. The present perfect tense is formed by using has or have with the past participle of a verb; has started, have watched. This tense is used to express an action or condition that occurred at some indefinite time in the past. The perfect tense can also be used to express the idea that an action or a condition began in the past and continues into the present.
L.31. The past perfect tense is formed by using had with the past particle of a verb: had found, had placed. This tense is used to indicate that one past action or condition began and ended before another past action started.
L.32. The future perfect tense is formed by using will have with the past participle of a verb:will have walked, will have seen.
L.33. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words as a noun, or another pronoun. A personal pronoun refers to a specific person or thing. Personal pronouns are singular or plural. They are in the subjective or objective case. The possessive pronouns take the place of the possessive forms of nouns.
L.34. Reflexive and intensive pronouns are formed by adding self or ourselves to certain of the personal pronouns. Example of singular: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself. Examples of plural:ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
L.35. A reflexive pronoun refers to a noun or another pronoun and indicates that the same person or thing is involved. Examples: I promise myself to exercise more. He bought himself a new jacket.
L.36. A relative pronoun is used to begin a special subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause.
L.37. Every main word in the titles of movies, plays, books, stories, magazines, newspaper, and songs begins with a capital letter.
L.38. Human language is unique in comparison to other forms of communication, such as those used by non-human animals.
L.39. Communication systems used by other animals such as bees or apes are closed systems that consist of a finite, usually very limited, number of possible ideas that can be expressed.
L.40. Several species of animals have proved to be able to acquire forms of communication through social learning: However, while some animals may acquire large numbers of words and symbols, none have been able to learn as many different signs as are generally known by an average 4 year old human, nor have any acquired anything resembling the complex grammar of human language.
L.41. Human languages also differ from animal communication systems in that they employ grammatical and semantic categories, such as noun and verb, present and past, which may be used to express exceedingly complex meanings.
L.42. Human language is also unique in being able to refer to abstract concepts and to imagined or hypothetical events as well as events that took place in the past or may happen in the future.
L.43. Literature, in its broadest sense, is any written work; etymologically the term derives from latinliteratura/litteratura “writing formed with letters”, although some definitions include spoken or sung texts.
L.44. Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose; it can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama.
L.45. Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language but a form of technology. Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols, usually in the form of a formal alphabet.