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PROGRAMME:……Bsc CHN…………..…LEVEL:200L……

A) Re-write the paragraph below by providing the appropriate punctuation marks to each
sentence of the paragraph (10 marks)

Answer:
Last Thursday, when the chairperson of Wisconsin University Ghana was in Kumasi, a couple of
aggrieved students’ challenges were addressed. The chairperson said, ‘Wisconsin is the best
university in the country and we as the management are ready to serve you with all we can ’. This
delighted several students who were present with their family relations; parents, grandparents
and cousins. What more could they have asked for? They were well attended to. Each received
special one-on-one sessions with the chairperson. What a sight it was!

B. Re-write the paragraph below correcting the faults in the subject-verb agreement

relationship in each sentence of the paragraph [5 MARKS]

Answer:
The short fat man
Travels
Go
Son
Has
Has
Ensures

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C. Using the words in the parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tense
forms of the verbs [5 MARKS]
was doing , called , had ,
went, insisted ,had recovered ,

was doing, will have buy, will arrive ,I expect

D. Determine if the verbs used in the following sentences are transitive, intransitive or

ditransitive [5 MARKS]

1. Transitive

2. Ditransitive

3. Intransitive

4. Transitive

5. Ditransitive

E. Re-write the sentences below by correcting the faults in them [5 MARKS]

1. The cowboy in a leather vest was thrown by the bull.

2. The thunderstorm terrified the two small children who were left alone in the house

3. They gave prizes in gift-wrapped boxes to the top contestants

4. Abena walked carefully, slowly and haltingly

5. Examples of aerobic exercises are running, swimming, cycling and walking long distance

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PROGRAMME:……Bsc CHN…………..…LEVEL:200L……

F. Complete the following sentences with the suitable form of the adjectives or adverbs of the

words in the parenthesis in each sentence [5 MARKS]

1. beautifully , beautiful

2. completely , autonomous

3. lovely , smallest

4. taller , longer

5. best , better

SECTION B [25 MARKS]

QUESTIONS

1. Identify the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.) of the following words as used in

the passage [10 marks]

a. Many - Ans. adjective

b. Workout - Ans. verb

c. Design - Ans. verb

d. Lower - Ans. verb

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e. Calming - Ans. adjective

f. Intelligently - Ans. Adverb /Adjective

g. Their - Ans. pronoun

h. About - Ans. preposition

i. Knowledge - Ans. noun

j. Or - Ans. conjunction

2. Identify the types of phrases of the following group of words as used in the passage [5

marks]

a. extremely lazy - Ans. Adjective phrase

b. from your troubles - Ans. Prepositional phrase

c. are assigned - Ans. Verb phrase

d. very easily - Ans. Adverb phrase

e. a more powerful person - Ans. Noun phrase

3. State the functional type of the dependent clause in each of the sentence below [5

mark]

a. relative

b. adverbial

c. relative

d. interrogative

e. adverbial

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4.

a. Simple sentence and interrogative

b. Complex and imperative

c. Compound sentence and

d. Simple sentence

e. Compound complex sentence

5.

a. Disgusting

b. Enlarges

c. Issues

d. Advantages

e. Warm up

6.

a. Sum

b. Knew

c. Inn

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d. Right

e. Two

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