SHS English Language · Year 1

Grammar Usage, Narratives, Drama, Poetry, Text Types and Purposes practice questions

Applied grammar usage across narrative, drama and poetry, and the purposes of different text types.

16 questions in this topic: 6 recall, 6 applying skills and concepts and 4 strategic thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.

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Question 1Recall
The present perfect tense is used mainly to describe
- aan action completed in the past whose effect is still felt in the present
- ban action happening at this exact moment in time
- can action that will only take place in the future
- dan instruction or direction given to someone
Question 2Recall
The plot of a story is best described as
- athe way and manner in which the events or incidents of the story are arranged
- bthe physical location and time period in which the story takes place
- cthe emotional atmosphere the story creates for the reader
- dthe specific words and phrases chosen to describe a scene
Question 3Skills & concepts
An essay arguing that daily homework harms students' health, difficulty level and free time, and calling on readers to agree, is best classified as
- apersuasive writing
- bdescriptive writing
- ca soliloquy
- da fricative consonant description

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