WASSCE English Language · Paper 1 style

Concord

One sample question with the full working. 5 more in the app, with instant feedback and repair sessions for the traps below.

Choose the option that best completes the sentence: Each of the boys ___ a bag.

Ahas
Bhave
Care having
Dhaves

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Answer: A

Each → singular.

Trap B Goes by a surface cue instead of the grammar: Ask what the word is DOING in this sentence (subject? modifier? object?) and what the rule says, not what its ending or look suggests.

Trap C Confuses tense/aspect forms: Present perfect links past to now (since 2019, already, yet, for three years); simple past goes with finished time (yesterday, in 2010, last week).

Trap D Uses the wrong form of the verb or word: Identify the structure the frame demands (past perfect after 'by the time … arrived'; passive 'will be + past participle'; 'refuse to + verb') and check the option fills it exactly.

Traps in Concord

Goes by a surface cue instead of the grammar
Ask what the word is DOING in this sentence (subject? modifier? object?) and what the rule says, not what its ending or look suggests.
Confuses tense/aspect forms
Present perfect links past to now (since 2019, already, yet, for three years); simple past goes with finished time (yesterday, in 2010, last week).
Uses the wrong form of the verb or word
Identify the structure the frame demands (past perfect after 'by the time … arrived'; passive 'will be + past participle'; 'refuse to + verb') and check the option fills it exactly.
Over-applies a grammar rule
Learn the exceptions with the rule: long adjectives take 'most'; 'look forward to' + -ing; only auxiliaries invert in modern English.

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