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O-Level English Comprehension Skills quiz (SEAB 1184 Paper 2) quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which question is most clearly a literal comprehension question?

  2. An inferential answer scores best when it is

  3. A vocabulary-in-context question asks you to give

  4. In the sentence 'The inbox was flooded with messages', the word 'flooded' here means

  5. A flow or connection question such as 'What does the word "this" refer to?' asks you to

  6. Which response best answers 'In your own words, explain why the villagers were anxious' if the passage reads 'the villagers were anxious because the harvest had failed'?

  7. The recommended pattern for answering a language-analysis question is

  8. Why is naming a technique (for example 'metaphor') not enough to earn the marks in a language question?

  9. A common mistake when answering an inferential question is to

  10. Which is the best evidence-based answer to 'What does the writer suggest about the town's mood?'

  11. When the command word is 'Explain' and the question is worth 3 marks, you should

  12. Which is the best practice when quoting evidence to support an answer?

  13. What does it mean that 'context decides the sense' of a word?

  14. Why does lifting the key content words lose marks even when the rest of the answer is reworded?