WASSCE English Language · Paper 1 style

Question tags

One sample question with the full working. 3 more in the app, with instant feedback and repair sessions for the traps below.

Choose the correct question tag: She is your sister, ___?

Ais she
Bdoesn't she
Cisn't she
Disn't it

Show the answer and working

Answer: C

Isn't she.

Trap A Makes only part of the required change: List every change the transformation needs (pronoun, tense, time word, word order) and tick each one in the option.

Trap B 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.

Trap D 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).

Traps in Question tags

Makes only part of the required change
List every change the transformation needs (pronoun, tense, time word, word order) and tick each one in the option.
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.
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).
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).
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.

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