WASSCE English Language · Paper 1 style

Clauses

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Choose the option that best completes the sentence: The boy ___ won the prize is my cousin.

Awhich
Bwhom
Cwhose
Dwho

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Answer: D

Who.

Trap A Uses the wrong type of pronoun: Match the pronoun to its job: subject (I/who), object (me/whom), possessive (mine/whose), reflexive (myself, only when the subject is the same person).

Trap B Over-corrects to a 'polite' form: Remove the other person and test: 'asked … me' → 'asked Tunde and me'; 'between … me'. Prepositions and verbs take object pronouns.

Trap C Picks a near neighbour of the right form: Name the exact category the stem needs (third conditional; /əʊ/; 'call off' = cancel; clause of concession) and check each option against that name, not against how close it looks.

Traps in Clauses

Uses the wrong type of pronoun
Match the pronoun to its job: subject (I/who), object (me/whom), possessive (mine/whose), reflexive (myself, only when the subject is the same person).
Over-corrects to a 'polite' form
Remove the other person and test: 'asked … me' → 'asked Tunde and me'; 'between … me'. Prepositions and verbs take object pronouns.
Picks a near neighbour of the right form
Name the exact category the stem needs (third conditional; /əʊ/; 'call off' = cancel; clause of concession) and check each option against that name, not against how close it looks.

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