Spelling
What is the correct spelling of the word meaning “belonging to a college or university”?
What is “academic”?
Identify the sentence type: “Please take your books and leave them on the desk.”
What is an instruction
Where should the apostrophe go in this sentence: “Its raining outside”?
“It’s raining outside.”
Name one of Sylvia Plath’s most famous poems.
What is “Daddy” or “Lady Lazarus”?
Which is correct: “definately” or “definitely”?
What is “definitely”?
What tense is used in this sentence: “She had been writing for hours”?
What is past perfect continuous?
Add a comma where needed: “Before we leave the house make sure the door is locked.”
After “house”
Robert Frost: In “The Road Not Taken,” what do the two roads symbolise?
What are life choices or diverging paths in life?
What’s the correct homophone in this sentence: “The wind blew through the bear/bare trees”?
What is “bare”?
Which is correct: “The team are winning” or “The team is winning”?
What is “The team is winning”?
When do you use a semicolon instead of a comma?
To join two independent clauses without a conjunction.
ruce Dawe: What is a recurring theme in Bruce Dawe’s poetry?
What is consumerism, war, or the Australian identity?
Spell the word that means “difficult to understand or explain”.
What is “inexplicable”?
Correct the sentence: “Walking to school, the rain soaked my clothes.”
“While I was walking to school, the rain soaked my clothes.”
“As I walked to school, the rain soaked my clothes.”
“Walking to school, I got soaked by the rain.”
How do you punctuate a quote within a quote?
Use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks.
Wilfred Owen: What poetic technique is used in “Dulce et Decorum Est” to convey horror?
What is vivid imagery or simile/metaphor?
This commonly misspelled word means “necessary for success.” Spell it.
What is “indispensable”?
Identify the subordinate clause in: “Although he was tired, he continued studying.”
What is “Although he was tired”?
In poetry, what’s the effect of removing punctuation entirely from a stanza?
It can create ambiguity, pace variation, or focus on imagery over structure.
Mixed Poets: Which poet’s work is often associated with confessionalism?
Who is Sylvia Plath?