WASSCE English Language · Paper 1 style

Pronouns

One sample question with the full working. 2 more in the app, with instant feedback and repair sessions for the traps below.

Choose the option that best completes the sentence: Between you and ___, the plan is weak.

AI
Bmyself
Cme
Dmine

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Answer: C

Between you and me.

Trap A 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 B 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 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 Pronouns

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.
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).
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.
Misspells commonly confused words
Learn the rule families: double the final consonant after a short stressed vowel (beginning, occurred); 'i before e except after c' (receive, believe) with exceptions; memorise -ance/-ence words (maintenance, existence, occurrence, accommodation).

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