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8. The pronouns neither and either are always 15. Expressions such as half of, a part of, a
singular and we use the singular form of the percentage of, a majority of are sometimes
verb even though they seem to be referring singular and sometimes plural, depending
to two things. on the meaning. Mathematical operations
Example: are always expressed as singular and
1. Neither of the clocks is working. require singular verbs. Fractions take a
2. Either suit is fine with me. singular verb if the OF-PHRASE that follows
it is singular!
9. If the words or, nor, neither-nor, either-or, Example:
not only-but also are used, the verb that we 1. Some of my classmates are angry.
use must agree with nearer subject. 2. Two times three is six.
Example: 3. One fifth of the class is taking the finals
1. Either the slaves or the master is going to prison. 4. One third of the troops were missing in action.
2. Neither the president nor his subordinates are
eating in the hotel tonight. 16. The phrase the number requires a singular
verb and the phrase a number requires a
10. Words such as glasses, pliers, pants, and plural verb.
scissors are regarded as plural unless the Example:
word pair precedes them. 1. The number of students who failed is thirty.
Example: 2. A number of students have passed the test.
1. My pants are torn.
2. A pair of scissors is in the drawer. 17. To indicate possession (who owns) of a
singular noun, we add an -„s... To indicate
11. There are instances when modifiers get in possession of a plural noun but ending in –
between the subject and its verb, these s, we add an „ only...
modifiers does not affect the agreement Example:
between the subject and the verb. 1. This is John‟s Money.
Example: 2. These are the dogs‟ collars.
1. The mayor, along with his brothers, is finally
going to jail. Points to Remember:
1. Make sure that he subject agrees with the verb.
12. Collective nouns require a singular verb 2. Don’t be distracted with the words in between
when the group is thought of as a unit, but it them.
requires a plural verb when the individuals 3. Only the subject will agree with the verb.
composing the group are thought of acting 4. Be sure that a pronoun, a participial phrase, or
as separately. an appositive refers clearly to the proper
Example: subject.
1. The committee was discussing the business
proposal. MODIFIERS -words, phrases, and clauses used to
2. The herd was found on top of the hill. give additional information
3. Members of the committee have placed their
votes. 1. Misplaced- modifier is far from the modified
word
13. The pronoun “you”, requires a plural verb 2. Dangling- modifier that does not modify any
regardless of number. word
Example: 3. Squinting- modifier that may modify two words
1. You are the best.
2. All of you are exempted from taking the finals.
FAULTY PARALELLISM - Mixing different
14. If the words Both-And join the parts of a syntactic structures (not equal structure)
compound subject, the verb required is 1. When giving a list- “I enjoy reading, writing,
plural. and to calculate”. (calculating)
Example: 2. Comparison- “I like swimming rather than to
1. Both the book and magazine are inside the hike.” (hiking)
drawer. 3. With correlative conjunctions- what you give
2. Both the pen and the pencil are on my desk. to one conjunction should have the same
structure with its partner. – “you are either for
us or you are against us.” (against us)
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COURAGEOUS TIMID
Valiant Timorous
Dauntless Indisposed
Gallant Laconic
Audacious Diffident
Stalwart Reticent
Intrepid Reserved
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11. Cirilo Bautista- The Archipelago 35. Ricardo Demetillo -No Certain Weather
12. Edith Tiempo- His Native Coast 36. Salvador Lopez- Literature and Society-
13. Estrella Alfon - Magnificence and Other Stories- 37. Severino Reyes- Walang Sugat, lola basyang,
14. Francisco ‘balagtas’ Baltazar- Prince of father of Tagalog drama
Tagalog Poet 38. Tita Lacambra Ayala - Sunflower Poems-
15. Francisco Benitez - What is an Educated 39. Zoilo Galang- A child of sorrow
Filipino?
B. WORLD
16. Francisco Sionil Jose- Ermita
1. Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address –
17. Genoveva Matute- Kwento ni Mabuti, 1st
1score=20yrs
palanca awardee
2. Alexis De Tocqueville- Democracy in America
18. Gilda Cordero- Fernando - Lower Mythology
3. Antoine De Saint Exupery- The Little prince
19. Gregorio Brillantes -The Living and the Dead
4. Aristophanes- Lysistrata
20. Jessica Hagedorn - Dogeaters
5. Aristotle - Ethics
21. Jose Garcia Villa- doveglion, comma poet, 1st
6. Boris Paternak – Dr. Zhivago -Russian
national artist/ Man songs
Totalitarianism
22. Jose Rizal – El Filbusterismo, The Reign of
7. Charles Dickens -Pickwick Papers
Greed, The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander
8. Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart; the most
Dumas, Political Novel, Work of Mind,
influential Nigerian writer
GomBurZa, Valentin Venture/ Noli Me Tangere,
9. Christopher Marlowe – Father of English
Touch Me Not , Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harret
Tragedy
Beecher Stoew, Romantic Nivel, Work of Heart,
10. Dante Alighieri- Divine Comedy/ Purgatory/
Motherland, Maximo Viola
Inferno/ Paradiso
23. Juan Crisostomo Soto- Ang Sigalot/ Lidia-
11. David Herbert Lawrence- Sons and Lovers
24. Kerima Polotan-Tuvera - The Virgin
12. David Hume- An Enquiry Concerning-
25. Leona Florentino - Poems in Spanish and
13. E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
Ilocano
14. Edgar Allan Poe- The Rave, Annabelle Lee -
26. Lope ka Santos- Banaag at Sikat; Father of
consumption; Father of American Short Story;
Philippine Grammar, Ama ng Balarilang Filipino
Father of Modern Detective story; Horror
27. Magdalena Jalandoni - Juanita Crus
15. Edith Wharton- The Age of Innocence
28. Manuel Arguilla- How my brother Leon brought
16. Emily Dickinson - The Soul Selects Her
home a wife/ Other Stories
17. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One hundred Years of
29. Maria Luisa Igloria- Encanto
Solitude
30. Maximo Ramos- The Creatures of Philippine
18. Geoffrey Chaucer- Morning Star and Father of
31. Nick Joaquin- Quijano de Manila, Filipino-
English Literature, Pioneer in English Literature,
spanish culture, belief and traditions./ The
Frame Story, Canterbury Tales
Woman Who Had Two Navels
19. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) – Silas Marner
32. Paz Latorena - Small Key
20. George Orwell- Animal Farm
33. Paz Marquez Benitez- Dead stars
21. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
34. Pedro Bukaneg- Biag ni Lam-ang; Father of
22. Guy de Maupassant- Ball of Fat, The Necklace,
Ilocano Literature
Foremost French Short story Writer
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23. H.B Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – initiated civil 51. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince -
war in US 52. Nikolai Gogol- Dead Souls
24. Henry Fielding -Tom Jones 53. Omar Khayyam – Rubaiyat – grasp pleasure –
25. Herman Melville - Moby Dick carpe diem (yolo)
26. Herodotus- The Histories 54. Phantom of the Opera – not Shakespeare
27. Homer- Mythical geographer, Iliad and 55. Plato - The Republic -
Odyssey; Pioneers in Greek and Classic 56. Psalms of King David – Greatest lyric poet
Literature 57. Publius Vergilius Maru/ Vergil- Aenid
28. Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons 58. Rabindranath Tagore- Gitanjali- collection of
29. J.K (Joane Kathleen) Rowling (Robert poetry, songs of offerings – Indian National Poet/
Galbraith) – Harry Potter 1st Asian to win Nobel Prize
30. James Joyce - Ulysses 59. Robert Frost- The road not taken, Decision-
31. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice making, Fate
32. Jean Jacques Rousseau - Confessions 60. Rudyard Kipling- The jungle book
33. Johann Wolfgang and Von Goethe- Faust 61. Samuel Coleridge - The Ancient Mariner-
34. John Locke - Second Treatise of Government- 62. Sigmund Freud- The Interpretation of Dreams-
35. John Milton – Lost Paradise 63. Sophocles -Theban Plays-
36. John Stuart Mill - Oh Liberty- 64. Sssu-Ma Ch’ien -Records of the Grand-
37. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travel 65. St. Augustine - The Confessions -
38. Kalidasa- India’s Shakepeare Greatest Sanskrit 66. Sun-Tzu - The Art of War-
poet/ Shakuntala 67. Thucydides -The History of the Peloponnesian
39. Laurence Sterne- Tristram Shandy War-
40. Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace 68. Valmiki - The Ramayana -
41. Leqi-Unninni - The Epic of Gilgamesh – first 69. Victor Hugo- Les miserable; the Hunchback of
epic Notredame
42. Lewis Caroll – Alice’s Adventure in 70. Voltaire- Candide –
Wonderland/ Narnia 71. Vyasa - The Mahabharata – longest epic of
43. Louisa Alcott – Litte Women India
44. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations 72. William Faulkner -The Sound and the Fury-
45. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) – Adventure of 73. William Shakespeare- Greatest English/
Chronicles/ Huckebery Finn Sonnet Writer/ Romeo and Juliet – (love and war
46. Mencius - The Book of Mencius – not included in influential) / Macbeth –(ambition
47. Moliere - The School of Wives for power)/ Merchant of Venice – (mercy)/
48. Muhammad - The Koran Hamlet – (To be or not to be)/ “Bard of Avon”
49. Nathaniel Hawthorne – Scarlet Letter – behave 74. William Wordsworth - The Prelude
when there is observer “When cat is away the
mouse will play”
50. Nelson Mandela – dream – democratic/ trait –
forgiving/ method – non violence
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