Here is a list of English skills students learn in year XI! The skills are organised into categories. To start your quiz, just click on any skill. Select your topic or question which you want to attempt first and Studyif will track your score.
Sentence structure
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Types of sentences
Fragment and run-on sentence
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
1.1 - is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
1.2 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
1.3 - Identify sentence fragments
1.4 - Identify run-on sentences
1.5 - Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
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Type of sentences
Kind of sentences
Fragment and run-on sentences
Fixing fragments and run-ons
Nouns
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Nouns
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
2.1 - Form and use plurals: review
2.2 - Form and use plurals of compound nouns
2.3 - Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
2.4 - Identifying Nouns
2.5 - Kind of nouns
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Plural and possessive nouns
Nouns and kind of nouns
Plural of compound nouns
Pronouns
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Pronouns
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
3.1 - Use relative pronouns: who and whom
3.2 - Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, and which
3.3 - Identify vague pronoun references
3.4 - Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
3.5 - Subject and object pronouns review
3.6 - Vague pronoun
3.7 - Pronoun antecedent agreement
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Pronoun-antecedent agreement
Relative pronouns
Subject and object pronouns
Vague pronoun reference
Verbs and verbals
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Verbs
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
4.1 - Form the progressive verb tenses
4.2 - Form the perfect verb tenses
4.3 - Transitive and intransitive Verb
4.4 - Action or linking verb
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Action and linking verbs
Forming the perfect verb tenses
Progressive verb tenses
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Adjectives and adverbs
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Adjectives and adverbs
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
5.1 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
5.2 - Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
5.3 - Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
5.4 - Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
5.5 - Adjectives
5.6 - Adverbs
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Adverbs
Adjectives
Comparative and superlative adverbs
Comparative and superlative adjectives
Prefixes and suffixes
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Analogy and affixes
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
6.1 - Word pattern analogies
6.2 - Word pattern sentences
6.3 - Words with pre-
6.4 - Suffixes
6.5 - Words with sub-
6.6 - Words with mis-
6.7 - Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
6.8 - Words with -ful
6.9 - Words with -less
6.10 - Prefixes and suffixes I
6.11 - Prefixes and suffixes II
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Affixation
Prefixes un, dis, in, im, non
Prefixes pre, re, sub, mis
Suffix ful, less, able, ible
Word pattern sentences
Word pattern analogy
Etymologies and foreign expressions
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Etymology
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
7.1 - Etymologies and foreign expressions
7.2 - Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
7.3 - Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
7.4 - Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
7.5 - Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
7.6 - Use the correct foreign expression
7.7 - Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
7.8 - Sort words using roots
7.9 - Foreign expression
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Greek roots
Etymologies and foreign expressions
Greek and Latin roots
Reference skills
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Dictionary skills
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
8.1 - Use thesaurus entries
8.2 - Dictionary usage
8.3 - Guide words
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Dictionary usage
Guide words
Thesaurus entries
Connotations and denotations
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Connotations and denotations
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
9.1 - Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
9.2 - Connotation and denotation
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Connotation and denotation
Context clues
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Affixes and homophones
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
10.1 - Use context to identify the meaning of a word
10.2 - Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
10.3 - Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
10.4 - Affixation and homophone
10.5 - Homophones
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Affixes
Homophones
Using synonyms in context
Using antonyms in context
Writing clear and concise sentences
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
How to write clearly and concisely
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
11.1 - Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
11.2 - Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
11.3 - Use parallel structure
11.4 - Are the modifiers used correctly?
11.5 - Are the modifiers used correctly?
11.6 - Redundancy I
11.7 - Redundancy II
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Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Redundancy
Parallel structure
Modifiers
Double, illogical, and unclear comparisons
Common errors
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
How to avoid common errors
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
12.1 - Use the correct frequently confused word
12.2 - Use the correct homophone
12.3 - Contractions
12.4 - Misspelled words
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Frequently confused words
Frequently confused pronouns and contractions
Commonly misspelled words
Writing process
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Writing process
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
13.1 - Order topics from broadest to narrowest
13.2 - Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
13.3 - Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
13.4 - Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
13.5 - Topic sentence that captures the main idea
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Topic sentence
Analysis
Ordering topics from broadest to narrowest
Author's purpose and tone
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Author's purpose and tone
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
14.1 - Which text is most formal?
14.2 - Identify audience and purpose
14.3 - Author's purpose
14.4 - Author's tone
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Audience and purpose
Author's purpose
Author's tone
Literary devices
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Narrative point of view
Figure of speech
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
15.1 - Identify the narrative point of view
15.2 - Use personification
15.3 - Interpret the meaning of allusions
15.4 - Identify the source of allusions
15.5 - Interpret figures of speech
15.6 - Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
15.7 - Classify figures of speech: review
15.8 - Alliteration, irony, and imagery
15.9 - Symbol, metaphor, personification, and simile
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Personification
Metaphor and simile
Identifying narrative point of view
Allusion
Alliteration, irony, imagery, symbol
Oxymoron, euphemism, hyperbole, paradox
Phrases and clauses
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Phrases and clauses
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
16.1 - Is it a phrase or a clause?
16.2 - Combine sentences using relative clauses
16.3 - Prepositional phrases
16.4 - Appositives
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Appositives
Clauses
Phrases
Prepositional phrase
Relative clause
Active and passive voice
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Active and passive voice
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
17.1 - Identify active and passive
17.2 - Rewrite the sentence in active
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Active and passive voice
Analogy
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Analogy
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
18.1 - Analogies
18.2 - Analogies: challenge
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Analogy
Dictionary usage
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Dictionary usage
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
19.1 - Use words accurately and precisely
19.2 - Replace words using a thesaurus
19.3 - Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
