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
Learn - Sentence structure
1.1 - Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
1.2 - Is it a direct object or an indirect object?
1.3 - Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
1.4 - Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
1.5 - Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
1.6 - Is it a phrase or a clause?
1.7 - Complete sentence and predicate
1.8 - Compound predicate
Nouns
Learn - Nouns
2.1 - Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
2.2 - Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
2.3 - Form plurals: review
2.4 - Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
2.5 - Singular or plural possessive
2.6 - Compound nouns and possessive forms
Pronouns and antecedents
Learn - Pronouns
3.1 - Choose between subject and object pronouns
3.2 - Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'
3.3 - Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
3.4 - Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
3.5 - Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
3.6 - Identify vague pronoun references
3.7 - Use reflexive pronouns
3.8 - Use relative pronouns: who and whom
3.9 - Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
3.10 - Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
3.11 - Pronouns and their antecedents
3.12 - Determine all possible antecedents
Active/Passive and Verbs
Learn - Active, passive, and verbs
4.1 - Use the correct verb with compound subjects
4.2 - Identify active and passive voice
4.3 - Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
4.4 - Rewrite the sentence in active voice
4.5 - Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
4.6 - Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
4.7 - Forming compound subjects and verbs
4.8 - Infinitive phrases
Adjectives and adverbs
Learn - Adjectives and adverbs
5.1 - Order adjectives
5.2 - Choose between adjectives and adverbs
5.3 - Is the word an adjective or adverb?
5.4 - Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
5.5 - Identify adjectives
5.6 - Identify adverbs
5.7 - Degree of adjective and adverb
Punctuation
Learn - Punctuation
6.1 - Formatting titles
6.2 - Formatting and capitalising titles: review
6.3 - Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
6.4 - Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
6.5 - Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
6.6 - Capitalising titles
6.7 - Coordinating and non-coordinating adjectives
6.8 - Hyphens and dashes
Prefixes and suffixes
Learn - Affixation
7.1 - Words with pre-
7.2 - Words with re-
7.3 - Words with sub-
7.4 - Words with mis-
7.5 - Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
7.6 - Words with -ful
7.7 - Words with -less
7.8 - Words with -able and -ible
7.9 - Affixation review
Greek and Latin roots
Learn - Greek and Latin roots
8.1 - Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
8.2 - Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
8.3 - Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
8.4 - Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Reference skills
Learn - Dictionary skills
9.1 - Alphabetical order
9.2 - Use guide words
9.3 - Use thesaurus entries
Thesaurus and connotation
Learn - Thesaurus and connotations
10.1 - Choose the synonym
10.2 - Choose the antonym
10.3 - Describe the difference between related words
10.4 - Positive and negative connotation
Figurative language
Learn - Figure of speech
11.1 - Use personification
11.2 - Interpret figures of speech
11.3 - Figure of speech
Writing clear and concise sentences
Learn - How to write clearly and concisely
12.1 - Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
12.2 - Use parallel structure
12.3 - Are the modifiers used correctly?
12.4 - Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
12.5 - Topics from broadest to narrowest
12.6 - Correct errors with frequently confused words
Author's purpose and tone
Learn - Author's purpose and tone
13.1 - Which sentence is more formal?
13.2 - Author's purpose
13.3 - Author's tone
Literary devices
Learn - Figure of speech
14.1 - Use personification
14.2 - Identify the source of allusions
14.3 - Interpret figures of speech
14.4 - Classify figures of speech
14.5 - Interpret the meaning of allusions
Type of sentences
Learn - Types of sentences
15.1 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
