Here is a list of English skills students learn in year XIII! 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.
Sentences
Learn - Sentences
1.1 - Recognize sentence fragments
1.2 - Recognize run-on sentences
1.3 - Recognize type of sentence
1.4 - To avoid fragments and run-ons, use punctuation
Pronouns
Learn - Relative pronouns
2.1 - Put relative pronouns to use: who and whom
2.2 - Relative pronouns
Learn - Subject and object pronoun
2.3 - Review of subject and object pronouns
2.4 - Find and fix subject- and object-pronoun mistakes
Learn - Vague pronoun reference and antecedent
2.5 - Recognize vague pronoun references
2.6 - Determine every possible antecedent
2.7 - Correct inappropriate pronoun shifts
Verbs
Learn - Verbs
3.1 - Create progressive verb tenses
3.2 - Create perfect verb tenses
3.3 - Recognize transitive and intransitive verbs
Adjectives and adverbs
Learn - Adjectives and adverbs
4.1 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
4.2 - Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
4.3 - Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
4.4 - Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
4.5 - Adjective vs adverb I
4.6 - Adjective vs adverb II
Prefixes and suffixes
Learn - Analogy and affixation
5.1 - Word pattern analogies
5.2 - Word pattern sentences
5.3 - Prefixes
5.4 - Suffixes
5.5 - Prefix vs suffix
Foreign expressions
Learn - Foreign expression and context clues
6.1 - Use the correct foreign expression
6.2 - Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
Word choice and usage
Learn - Usage of word
7.1 - Distinction between related words
7.2 - Use words accurately and precisely
7.3 - Replace words using a thesaurus
7.4 - Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
Context clues
Learn - Context clues
8.1 - Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
8.2 - Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
8.3 - Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects
8.4 - Use context to determine a word's meaning
8.5 - Use sentences to determine a word's meaning
Modifiers and parallel structures
Learn - Modifiers and parallel structures
9.1 - Are the modifiers used correctly?
9.2 - Dangling modifier
9.3 - Use parallel structure
9.4 - Misplaced modifiers with pictures
9.5 - Identify sentences with parallel structure
Homophones and common errors
Learn - Homophones and how to avoid common errors
10.1 - Use the correct homophone
10.2 - Identify and correct errors with homophone
10.3 - Use the correct frequently confused word
10.4 - Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
10.5 - Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
10.6 - Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
10.7 - Misspelled words
10.8 - Misspelled phrases
Writing process
Learn - Writing process
11.1 - Order topics from broadest to narrowest
11.2 - Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
11.3 - Identify plagiarism
11.4 - Suggest appropriate revisions
Writing arguements
Learn - How to avoid writing arguments
12.1 - Distinguish facts from opinions
12.2 - Choose evidence to support a claim
12.3 - Choose the most appropriate counterclaim for a given claim
12.4 - Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
12.5 - Identify supporting evidence in a text
12.6 - Stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
Author's purpose and tone
Learn - Formal text and tone
13.1 - Which text is most formal?
13.2 - Subjective and objective tone
Allusion and narrative point of view
Learn - Allusion and narrative point of view
14.1 - Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
14.2 - Recall the source of an allusion
14.3 - Identify the narrative point of view
Literature and informational text analysis
Learn - Analysis
15.1 - Short stories
15.2 - Poetry
15.3 - Non-fiction passages
15.4 - Main ideas or themes
15.5 - Topic sentence
Tenses
Learn - Tenses
16.1 - Create progressive verb tense
16.2 - Create perfect verb tenses
Phrases and clauses
Learn - Phrases and clauses
17.1 - Phrase or clause?
17.2 - Use relative clauses to join sentences
17.3 - Recognize prepositional phrase
Verbals
Learn - Verbal
18.1 - Recognize gerunds
18.2 - Participles
Etymology
Learn - Etymology
19.1 - Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
19.2 - Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
19.3 - Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
19.4 - Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
19.5 - Sort words by sharing Greek or Latin roots
Connotation, denotation, and analogy
Learn - Connotation, denotation, and analogy
20.1 - Connotation
20.2 - Denotation
20.3 - Connotation and denotation
20.4 - Analogies
20.5 - Analogies: challenge
Writing concisely
Learn - Writing concisely
21.1 - Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
21.2 - Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
21.3 - Redundant words or phrases
Ethos, logos, and pathos
Learn - Ethos, logos, and pathos
22.1 - Identify audience and purpose
22.2 - Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing
22.3 - Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
Literary devices
Learn - Figure of speech
23.1 - Interpret the figure of speech
23.2 - Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
23.3 - Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
