English Syllabus Highlights

The English section assesses grammar and vocabulary, including sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, articles/prepositions, error identification, and comprehension.

Reading and Thinking Skills

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• • Scan to answer short questions
• • Deduce meanings from context
• • Analyze figurative language and sensory imagery

Formal and Lexical Aspect

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• • Deduce meaning of difficult words using context clues
• • Explore synonyms with shades of meaning (irony, parody, satire)
• • Pronoun–antecedent agreement
• • Use of tenses
• • Use of infinitives and infinitive phrases
• • Use of gerunds and gerund phrases
• • Positions of adverbs in sentences
• • Use of prepositions (position, time, movement, direction)
• • Use of transitional devices in speech and writing
• • Use of punctuation marks
• • Analyze sentences (classes, phrases, meaning changes)
• • Use of sentence inversion for various purposes
• • Active and passive voice in speech and writing
• • Direct and indirect speech in speech and writing

Writing Skills

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• • Proofread and edit own, peer, and given text
• • Correct faulty sentence structure
• • Subject–verb agreement
• • Correct errors of function and spelling