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1. I cant find MY calculator may I use yours Prince?

Part of Speech

Noun- name of person, tings, animals etc.

Pronoun - Takes place noun
Adjective - Describing word (noun and pronoun)
Verb - action words/state of being (feel)
Adverb - describing word ( adjective and verb)
Conjunction - is a word connected to another phrases (and, but)
Preposition - connect noun and pronoun’s or subject
Interjection - uses in exclamation point , to show strong feelings.

2. Let us campaign for the total ban ON THE USE of harmful

insecticides.
3. If I HAD known you before, we could have arranged a join project.
4. Neither the teacher nor the students WERE present in the affairs. ( If-
were)
or- singular , and - plural
title of the song is - singular
fries and fries - singular (is)

5. When helping in the kitchen, I am careful not to hurt MYSELF

6. We admire HER when Cynthia speaks English fluently with US.
7. The student's request to re-set test IS reasonable.
8. Filipino writer whose stories and poem - NICK JOAQUIN - ( Quianno
De Manila)
9. What figure of speech is "O wild, west, wind - APOSTROPHE

PART OF FIGURE OF SPEECH

1. SIMILE- comparing two unrelated things using like or us ( MOLAVE

TREE)
2. METAPHOR - comparing two unrelated thing ( you and snakes)
3. PERSONIFICATION - Giving non-living things human characteristics
4. HYPERBOLE- take something true.
5. IRONY- expression that signifies the opposite, for humorous effect
6. ONOMATOPIA- words that look like they sound.
7. ALLITERATION - the same sound at the start of every word. (tongue
twister)
8. ASSONANCE- The repetition of vowel sounds.

VOCABULARY

VORACIOUS - Eagerness
CARNAL - wordily
DESPOTIC- Cruel
ERUDITE - Learned, Intelligence
TRANSMUTED - Change
RANCOR- Bitterness
MUNDANEW - Ordinary
PROFANITY - Obscenity
APOCALYPTIC- Prophetic
EMULATING - Imitating
IMPERTINENT- Irrelevant
LOQUACIOUS - Verbose
CONFLAGRATION- Large fire
QUEUE - Line
DOCILE - Easy to manage
SINE QUA NON - Indispensable
SOIREE - Evening party
CHAUFFEUR - Driver
RENAISSANCE- Rebirth
OUTER-EGO - Friend
PULCHRITUDE - loveliness
ABASE - Demoted
PERSIFLAGE - Joke likely
DEXTERITY- Manual hand
AMORPHOUS - Shapeless
PENCHANT - Fondness
IMMINENT - Near
ABANDONED - Left behind
AMPLOMB - Composure, Calmness, Relax
EUPHORIA- State of being well
CONNOISSEUR- Expert in matters
MESDAMES- Madame
ACAPELLA - W/O Accompaniment

PHRASES/STATEMENT
AMORE- Love begets love

1. Wrote "the open boat" - STEPHENS WRITING

2. "Stephen Crane was born in 1971 in New Jersey - STEPHENS FAMILY
AND BOYHOOD
3. Nelson Mandela dream for South Africa - DEMOCRATIC ( TRAITS -
FORGIVING) ( METHOD/STRATEGY - NON VIOLENCE)
4. The informal guide and honorary household chief in the extended
family is - GRANDMOTHER
5. What role of the women is displayed by the lines in Luis Dato's
Spouse - HOUSEWIFE
6. Close relatives in an extended family - RECIPROCAL
7. Manolo is experiencing - STAGE FRIGTH

MOOD OF THE LINES

8. Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise - HOPEFUL
9. To be or not to be - INDECISION
10. Robert Frost wrote the poem Acquainted - ISOLATION AND
LOVELINESS
11. Rather find strength in what remains behind- HOPE
12. Nothing happens in this world by chance - DESTINY ( grand design)
13. life is but walking shadows - LIFE HAS ITS END
14. Em's lives ON Maligaya Street.

FAMOUS AUTHORS AND WORKS

1. ABRAHAM LINCLON - Gettysburg Address

2. NATHANIEL HAWTORNE - Scarlet letter
3. ROBERT FROST - The Road not taken
4. J.L ROWLING - harry Potter
5. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. EDGAR ALLAN POE- Annabelle Fee , Father of Horror Stories
7. MARK TWAIN - The Adventures of HUCKLEBERY Finn.
8. GUY DE MAUPASSANT - The necklace, Foremost French short story
writer
9. JANE AUSTEN- Pride and Prejudice
10. CARLOS S. LEWIS- Chronicles of Narnia
11. JOHANNES GUTENBERG - The father of Printing
12. FRANCIS BACON - The father of English essay
13. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR - greatest English writer, greatest Sonnet
writer, Bard of Avon( a great poet)
- How many sonnet he writes - 154, sonnet - 14 lines, Last to lines -
Caplet
- famous sonnet - 18 ( Shall I compare Vito Summers Day.)
14. GEOFFREY CHAUCER - Father of English literature - He wrote s 24
stories.
- Morning Star of English literature - Italian and
Renaissance Spirit
15. HOMER - Mythical geographer - two story - ILIAD and ODYSSEY
16. CICERO - greatest orator ( romance)
17. PSALMS OF KING DAVID- greatest lyric poem
18. RABINDRANATH TAGORE - Indian National Poet
19. KALIDASA - Indian's Shakespeare
 SCIENCE

1. Which of the following is not characteristics of scientific assertion ? -

HEARSEY
2. Necrotic and Decaying matter - YEAST
3. Kingdom Plantea - MANGNOLIDAE
4. Heterotroph - GRASSHOPPER , ( Autotroph provides their food)
5. Arctic environment- WALRUS
6. All life forms - FOOD WEB, ( Food Chain - Linear feeding
connections).
7. How are bats able to navigate- THEY EMIT SOUND WAVES WHOSEW
RETURNING VIBRATIONS.
8. What is the term to best describe how this species copes w/ everyday
life- ECOLOGICAL NICHE -( role or position of ecosystem)
9. The world's largest ecosystem. - ANTARTICA - ( SAHARA - highest
hottest dessert)
10. Allows plant to capture energy from sunlight - CHROLOPHYLL
( STOMATA - opening of the leaves) (chloroplast - magaganap)

GENERAL SCIENCE
CELL THEORY
1. all living things are composed of cells. ( non -living thing - VIRUS)
2. Cell is the basic functional unit of life
3. Cell arise from pre-existing cell.

largest cell in the body - EGG CELL

smallest cell in the body - SPERM CELL

TYPICAL CELL
CELL WALL-
NUCLEUS - center of the cell
Inside the Nucleus - Nucleolus - Ribosomes - Proteins
MITOCHONDRIA - power house of the cell.
ANIMAL CELL - no cell wall
CELLULOSE Component of cell wall of the plant.
KYTINE - Component of cell wall of the fungi.
PEPTIDOGLYCAN - Component of cell wall of the bacteria.

ECOLOGY - study of interaction of the living and non-living.

ENERGY PYRAMID - 10%

ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP
1. COMMENSALISM - w/c two organism one benefit and the other neither
benefit nor harm.
2. PARASITISM - one organism is benefited the other is harm.
3. MUTUALISM - both benefits
4. AMENSALISM - walang napapala
5. NEUTRALISM - no level of relationship
6. COMPETITION - nagaagwan sa needs ng bawat isa.
7. PREDATION - kills and eats another organism - (prey - kinakain,
predator - kumakain)
8. GENOTYPE - genetic make up
9. PHENOTYPE- Physical appearance
10. DOMINANT - trait na express or superior
11. RECESSIVE - trait na inhebit

LAWS OF HEREDITY
1. LAW OF SEGREGATIO
2. LAW OF INDEPENDENT ASSORTMENT - inherited
3. LAW OF COMPLETE DOMINANCE
4. LAW OF INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE
5. LAW OF CODOMINANCE

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
IGNENOUS ROCK - cooling magma
SEDIMENTARY - precipitation sand silk sediment.
METAMOPRPHIC - Heat and pressure
RANKS OF COAL
- ANTHRACITE -highest
- LIGNITE - lowest

OTHER NOTES
- food supply - PLANTS
- father of medicine - EPOCRATES
- father of biology - ARISTOTLE

1. Dwindling biodiversity - DESTRUCTION HABITAT

2. defines as one newton per square meter- PASCAL
3. metric for carats - 200 MG
4. It is summer ans when the sunshine all the time both day and night.
MIDNIGHT SUN
5. smallest mass - 1/8 SHEET OF PAD PAPER
MATHEMATICS

33 Clara Ramos work as a sales clerk. She is paid a salary of 3000.00

a week plus 2% commission sales over P 4,080.00 on Find her gross pay
for
a week in w/c be sales P 9500.00.
9-500-4000- 5,5OO
5,500 X. 0.02 = 110
B= 3,110.00

33. Regala Company manufactures beds, in its catalogue, a double deck

bed is at
5,000 do less a discount of 20%. What will have to pay for the bed she
ordered ?
D= P4,000
5,000 X 0.20 - 1000
5000-1000 = 4000

34. What is the total amount after adding interest of 8% on P10,000 for 3
yrs? - P12, 400
1 = PX RX T
1= 10,000 × 0.08 X 3
1= 2, 400
10,000 + 2, 400 = 12, 400

35. the reading on a water meter April and May are 417.8kl and 430.4kl -
275

36. How many glasses of cola each to be filled with Isu cu cm of the
liquid can be made
each containing I-5 liters? from 5 family size bottles of cola 50 = 50L
37. GCF of 22, 15, and 7 is = 1
38. LCM of 5, 2, 7 = 70
39. LCM of 12 and 60 = 120
40. A rectangular block of steel has dimensions of 5 meters X 10 meters
X 15 meters
= on the 10 meter by 15 meters side.
41. How edges much longer is the total of cube whose edge length of
the plaster 10cm compare to a cube whose edge is 8 cm? = 24 cm

Common conversions

- 2.54 cm in l in

- 12 in in 1ft
- 2.21 lbs in 1kg

- 200 mg in 1 carat

- 1296 sq. in in 1 sq. yd

- second in 1 day- 86,400

July 12, 2003- July 12, 2005 Friday

1. Time deposit in a bank will mature after 91 days if the deposit was
made April 28, on what date will it on mature = July 29
2. Janus alone do in can do in 3 days and Prince alone can do in 6 days
= 2 days
3. Triangle = 12
4. First 16 prime numbers that the sum of the first 10 counting
numbers? = 74
1st prime number. -2+3+3+7+11+13+17+19+23+29=129
1st counting" "-1 +2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+ 10 = 55 (129-55=74)
5. equivalent to one character- Byte
6. Simplify (8X -24 )/ (2x2 - x- 15) = 8/(2x+5)
7. 2x2 + 7x- 15 = (x+5)(2x_3)
8. One angle of a parallelogram 35* = 145*, 35*, 145*
9. 76% - 85% = 82%
10. Rubens f = grade in 6 subjects are 88,89,84,90,91,86+x = 90
11. A map is drawn to scale such that 1.5 cm on the map
corresponds to 7km in actual distance = 5.4 cm
ARTS APPRECIATION AND HUMANITIES

1. First National artist for literature - Jose Garcia Villa.

2. National artist for visual arts - Carles V. Francisco.
3. National artist for music - Lucio San Pedro (composer ng sa ugoy ng
duyan)
4. Fernando Amorsolo
5. Filipina singer who gained international recognition ~ Lea Salonga
6. Renowned pianist - Cecil Licad.
7. Prima ballerina - Liza Macuja
8. Recently awarded sculptor Napoleon Abueva Sculpture of landmarks -
Eduardo Castrillo - lapyeta
9. Proponent of areng theater - Severing Montano
10. Proponent of sala theater - Naty Crame Rogers.
11. Proponent of experimental theater - Rolando Tinio
12. Painter of Spoliarium - Juan Luna
13. Classical violin music to the masses - Gilopez kabayao

BASIC ECONOMIC
1. Macroeconomics - buong bansa
2. Microeconomics - maliit na business
3. GDP- sa pilipinas lang
4. GNP- sa pilipinas at ibang bansa.
5. National Income: income total time of work
6. Per Capita income- income total number of people
7. Demand ( needs), and Supply ( provides)
8. Trade - exchange of product involve with money
9. Barter- product exchange with product
10. Monopoly - Isa lang ang nagcontrol
11. Oligopoly - marami ang nagcocontrol
12. Inflation- pagtaas ng presyo
13. Defletion - pagbaba ng presyo
14. Appreciation - tumaas ang value
15. Depreciation - bumaba ang value
16. Import -pagpasok ng bansa
17. Export - paglaabs ng bansa
18. White collar mania ~ professional
19. Blue Cellar mania ~ vocational
20. Brain drain - movement

Acronyms and Abbreviations

SONA - State of Nation Address
ISIS - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Train Law - Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion
PAR - Philippine Sea of Responsibility
GAD- GENDER and Development
LASER- Light Amplification of Stimulated Emission of Radiation
SCUBA- Self Contain underwater Breathing Apparatus

ICT - COMPUTERS
ELEMENST OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM
1. PEOPLEWARE - operate
2. HARDWARE - tangible component
3. SOFTWARE - intangible component

OTHER NOTES
INPUT - papasok like keyboard
OUTPUT - palabas like print
CNTRL A - select all
CNTRL B - Bold
CNTRL U - underline
CNTRL I - italicize
CNTRL C - copy
CNTRL P - print
CNTRL V - paste
CNTRL X - cut
CNTRL S - Save
CNTRL N - open new file
CNTRL O - open document
CNTRL D - open font
ALT - Alter Key
CNTRL - control
HTML - Language
USB - Universal Serial Bus
URL - Uniform Resource Locator

Role of Computer
1. Informative Tool - advertisement
2. Productivity -
3. Communicative Tool - Synchronous - (face to face), Asynchronous -
( Gmail ,Yahoo.)

1. Latest addition to our department added in 2016 - DICT ( Department

Intermission Communication Technology
2. Is not an input device - GAMING APPLICATION
3. Application of specific concepts - TECHNOLOGY
4. Board that forms the foundation of your computer- MOTHERBOARD
5. means the graphics will be displayed - TILING
6. information highway - INTERNET
7. help run the computer - OPERATING SYSTEM
FILIPINO

NOTES
AWITING BAYAN
1. OYAYI O HELE- pampatulog sa bata
2. DIONA - awiting pangkasal
3. UMBAY - AWITING paglilibing
4. TALINDAW - awiting pamamangka
5. KUMINTANG - awiting tagumpay
6. DALIT/IMNO- awiting diyop at Dis-diyosan
7. KUNDIMAN- awiting pagiibigan ng mga tagalog
8. BALITAW- awiting pagiibigan ng mga bisaya.

1. A stitch in time saves nine - MAAGAP

2. Neneng is the apple of DAddy eye's - MAHAL
3. You can count on me - MAASAHAN MO AKO
4. My bank account is in the red- MALAPIT NF MAUBOS
5. Storm in a tea cup- BALE-WALA
6. We are running out of food- KINAKAPOS SA PAGKAIN
7. Mountain out of a mole - EXSAHIRADO
8. Waste not, want not - MAGTIPID

WIKA
TEORYA NG PINAGMULAN NG WIKA
1. TORE NG BABEL - biblical
2. BOW-BOW - tunog ng kalikasan (hayop)
3. DING-DONG - tunog ng kalikasan ( bagay)
4. YO-HE-HO- puwersang pisikal
5. POOH-POOH - masidhing damdamin
6. YUM-YUM - tunog Dila
7. TARARA BOOM-DE-AY- ritual ng pangkat etniko
8. TA-TA - kumpas ng kamay

BARAYTI NG WIKA

1. lugar o lalawigan - DAYALEK

2. nangaling sa estudo ng lipunan - SOSYOLEK
3. Pansanling wika- IDYOLEK
4. Pangkat-etnikoko - ETNOLEK
5. Bahay - EKOLEK

ANTAS NG WIKA
1 Boung bansa - Pambansa
2) sa isang lalawigan - LALAWIGANIN
3) akda o sulatin - PAMPANITIKAN
4) salita araw-araw - KOLOKYAL
5) mababang antas na salita - BALBAL
6) base sa propesyon - JARGON
1. LABINGWALO piraso ang dala niyang pasalubong

WALANG PAKSA
1. PAGHANGA - ekspresyong nagpapahayag ng paghanga
2. PORMULASYONG PANLIPUNAN - balitaan
3. EKSISTENSYAL - pagkamayroon o pagkawala
4. PENOMENAL - Pangyayari sa kalikasan
5. PAMANAHON - sa oras

2. Q - KYU
3. MUSIKA - walang diptonggo
4. uri ng panghalip na ginagamit na panturo - PAMATLIG

MGA BAHAGI NG PANANALITA

1. Panao - Ako, Siya
2. Paari - Akın, Sayo
3. Pananong - Sino, Ano, Kailan
4. Pamilang- kaunti, Marami
5. Pamaklaw - Pangkat
6. Pamatlig - Dito - Doon

5.METATESIS - gumagamit ng pagpapalit ng posisyon ng ponema.

6. MORPEMANG LEKSIKAL - mga salitang nakapag-iisa at may
kahulugan.

7. PANGURI - Ang salitang malakas ay isang?

BAHAGI NG PANANALITA
1. PANGNGALAN - tumutukoy sa ngalan ng tao (noun)
2. PANGHALIP - panghalili o pamalit (pronoun)
3. PANG-URI - salitang naglalarawan sa katangian ng tao iba pa.
(adjective)
4. PANDIWA - salitang kilos (verb)
5. PANG-ABAY - salitang naglalarawan sa pandiwa (adverb)
6. PANGATNIG - saliatng naguugnay sa dalawang salita pandiwa.
(conjuction)
7. PANG-UKOL- naguugnay sa pangngalan, pangahalip ( preposition)

8. PAGTAWAG - kapalaran huwag ka sanang mailap.

1. Probable - kaganapan at pagkakataon

2. Subjective - Personal na panlasa
3. Categorical - Bunga ng karanasan ng tao