1,129 prompts matching "Making the verb agree with the true subject, not the nearest noun"
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Check my understanding: what happens at the start, middle and end of a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of a short text by asking me to exp
Teach me: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how paragraphing styles, logical sequencing of id
Teach me: the format and tone of an informal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of an informal letter — address, salut
Teach me: the language of descriptive writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what descriptive writing aims to do, and show me
Teach me: the format and tone of a semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me who a semi-formal letter is written to, its typic
Teach me: why befitting and beginning double their consonant
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Practise: a dictation exercise with punctuation check
Act as my SS1 English tutor and read me a short passage for dictation, have me write it do
Practise: building new words with prefixes and suffixes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a set of root words and help me practise adding pr
Teach me: three-syllable words stressed on the first or second syllable
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between three-syllable words stres
Teach me: following the ideas in a debate as a listener
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Quiz me: summarising the arguments from a debate I listened to
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Quiz me: choosing the correct collocation over a wrong pairing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me by giving me pairs of options like 'a burning desi
Practise: writing sentences with adjuncts of reason
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing my own sentences that include an
Teach me: what an adverbial clause is and how it is formed
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what an adverbial clause is, how it is formed, an
Teach me: the difference between biography and autobiography
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Teach me: writing a semi-formal letter with balanced tone
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to write a semi-formal letter, balancing a re
Teach me: describing people and places using adjectives and adverbs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to build a vivid description of a place, char
Practise: a short spelling dictation with peer-style self-correction
Act as my SS1 English tutor and dictate a short list of words to me, have me write them do
Teach me: reading the phonetic chart and the 44 sounds of English
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a phonetic chart, and walk me through
Practise: transcribing words using the phonetic chart
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short list of words and help me practise transcr