English Final Exam 2022

Question 1

Adverbs of degree

Answer 1

e.g: The birds sing a lot.
Adverbs that answer the questions of how much or to what extent

Question 2

Adverbs of frequency

Answer 2

e.g: The birds sing everyday.
An adverb that tells us how often an action is done

Question 3

Adverbs of duration

Answer 3

e.g: The birds sing during all day
Adverbs of duration show us the length of the action

Question 4

Active Sentences

Answer 4

e.g: The dog barked at the stranger
The subject performs the action in the sentence to the object

Question 5

Passive Sentences

Answer 5

e.g: The kids are being entertained by the clown
The subject is receiving the action by someone or something else.

Question 6

Direct Speech

Answer 6

e.g: Clown: “Do you want to hear a joke?”
Can be described as the exact words spoken by a person or character. Direct Speech is enclosed in quotation marks

Question 7

Reported Speech

Answer 7

e.g: The clown asked if they want to hear a joke.
Describes the conversation as it might have been told (that is, reported) to someone else who did not hear the original dialogue. There are no inverted commas in reported speech

Question 8

coordinating conjunctions
FANBOYS

Answer 8

e.g: Bella is on her computer, and she is talking to her Oupa.
F: for
A: and
N: nor
B: but
O: or
Y: yet
S: so

Question 9

Independent clause

Answer 9

e.g: They are building a house.
An independent clause is a group of words placed together to form a sentence, it can stand on its own and make complete sense

Question 10

Compound Sentence

Answer 10

e.g: They are making a lot of noise, because they are building a house.
A compound sentence is a sentence that connects two independent clauses, typically with a coordinating conjunction. Firstly, what is an independent clause

Question 11

subordinating conjunctions
ISAWAWABUB

Answer 11

e.g: Bella’s computer made a noise, because she was playingr a game.
I: if
S: since
A: as
W: when
A: although
W: while
A: after
B: before
U: until
B: because

Question 12

Dependent clause

Answer 12

e.g: I am working on my computer, while its being charged.
a group of words that are placed together, but do not make any sense. You need more information to understand what it means.

Question 13

Complex Sentence

Answer 13

e.g: The boy got a treat, because he did his homework.
A sentence that contains one independent and at least one dependent clause connected by a subordinate conjunction.

Question 14

Colon

Answer 14

Introduce a list of things or introduce a quotation

Question 15

Semi colon

Answer 15

e.g: The girl came late at school; the traffic was very heavy.
Separate sentences where the conjunction has been left out

Question 16

Parenthesis

Answer 16

e.g: Bella (Oupa’s granddaughter) is playing video games
A word, phrase, or clause inserted into a sentence as an explanation or afterthought. When parenthesis in a sentence is removed, the surrounding text is still grammatically correct.

Question 17

Phrase

Answer 17

e.g: Looking at a bird
A phrase is a group of words that adds meaning to a sentence

Question 18

Noun phrase

Answer 18

e.g: The noisy bird on the fence
a group of words that can take the place of a noun.​

Question 19

Verb phrase

Answer 19

a combination of an action verb and a helping verb

Question 20

Helping/auxiliary verbs

Answer 20

e.g: will cook, is cooking, has cooked
they show when things happen, help express the action of the main verb and help us see if an action is completed or not.

Question 21

Claus

Answer 21

e.g: The dog barked at the stranger
Subject: Dog Verb: barked object: Stranger
A clause is a group of words which contains a complete thought or a single ​idea
phrase: who did what
Claus: where/what/when was it done