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 - Types of sentences
1.1 - is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
1.2 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
Learn - Fragment and run-on sentence
1.3 - Identify sentence fragments
1.4 - Identify run-on sentences
1.5 - Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
Nouns
Learn - Nouns
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
Pronouns
Learn - Pronouns
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
Verbs and verbals
Learn - Verbs
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
Adjectives and adverbs
Learn - Adjectives and adverbs
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
Prefixes and suffixes
Learn - Analogy and affixes
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
Etymologies and foreign expressions
Learn - Etymology
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
Reference skills
Learn - Dictionary skills
8.1 - Use thesaurus entries
8.2 - Dictionary usage
8.3 - Guide words
Connotations and denotations
Learn - Connotations and denotations
9.1 - Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
9.2 - Connotation and denotation
Context clues
Learn - Affixes and homophones
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
Writing clear and concise sentences
Learn - How to write clearly and concisely
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
Common errors
Learn - How to avoid common errors
12.1 - Use the correct frequently confused word
12.2 - Use the correct homophone
12.3 - Contractions
12.4 - Misspelled words
Writing process
Learn - Writing process
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
Author's purpose and tone
Learn - Author's purpose and tone
14.1 - Which text is most formal?
14.2 - Identify audience and purpose
14.3 - Author's purpose
14.4 - Author's tone
Literary devices
Learn - Narrative point of view
15.1 - Identify the narrative point of view
Learn - Figure of speech
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
Phrases and clauses
Learn - Phrases and clauses
16.1 - Is it a phrase or a clause?
16.2 - Combine sentences using relative clauses
16.3 - Prepositional phrases
16.4 - Appositives
Active and passive voice
Learn - Active and passive voice
17.1 - Identify active and passive
17.2 - Rewrite the sentence in active
Analogy
Learn - Analogy
18.1 - Analogies
18.2 - Analogies: challenge
Dictionary usage
Learn - Dictionary usage
19.1 - Use words accurately and precisely
19.2 - Replace words using a thesaurus
19.3 - Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
