SHS English Language · Year 1

Word Classes and Cohesive Devices practice questions

The eight word classes and the cohesive devices that link ideas within a text.

15 questions in this topic: 5 recall, 6 applying skills and concepts and 4 strategic thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.

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Question 1Recall
Conjunctions are best defined as words that
- ajoin or link words or groups of words together
- bdescribe or qualify a noun in a sentence
- creplace a noun to avoid repeating it
- dshow the tense of the main verb in a sentence
Question 2Skills & concepts
Suspense, as a tool for plot development, is best described as
- athe deliberate withholding of information to heighten and sustain the reader's interest
- brevealing the story's ending in the very first paragraph
- ca word used to join two clauses of equal grammatical rank
- dthe process of changing a verb to reflect a new tense
Question 3Strategic thinking
In a passage on deforestation, the writer moves from describing the destruction of forests to explaining the resulting change in climate, using the phrase "As a result". This phrase is functioning as a cohesive device showing
- acause and effect
- bcontrast between two opposing ideas
- ca simple sequence of events in time
- dan exception to a general rule

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