SHS English Language · Year 1

Discourse, Summarising Text and Forms of Adjectives practice questions

Conversational discourse strategies, summary-writing technique and the different forms of adjectives.

17 questions in this topic: 7 recall, 7 applying skills and concepts and 3 strategic thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.

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Question 1Strategic thinking
For a two-syllable adjective like happy, the comparative and superlative degrees are typically formed by
- aadding -er and -est, as in happier and happiest
- badding more and most only, never -er or -est
- cusing an entirely different, unrelated word
- dleaving the adjective completely unchanged in every degree
Question 2Recall
The setting of a story refers mainly to
- athe physical location and point in time in which the plot takes place
- bthe sequence of events that drive the plot forward
- cthe people, animals or personified objects that drive the action
- dthe moral lesson the audience is meant to take from the story
Question 3Skills & concepts
In a story's plot, the rising action is best described as the stage where
- athe tempo or intensity of the actions increases as the story builds
- bthe story's conflict is finally and completely resolved
- cthe writer first declares or exposes the content of the story
- dthe events of the story slow down toward a quiet ending

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