1,134 prompts matching "Choosing the odd word out by its vowel sound"
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Writing task: writing up notes from a short talk
Act as my SS1 English tutor and read or describe a short talk to me, have me take notes, t
Writing task: a short argument on a topic with two sides
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short argumentative piec
Writing task: an expository piece explaining a process
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write an expository piece explai
Practise: a dictation exercise with tricky homophones
Act as my SS1 English tutor and dictate a set of sentences containing homophones to me, ha
Practise: a dictation of minimal pairs with peer-style correction
Act as my SS1 English tutor and dictate a set of minimal pairs to me, have me write them d
Testing A Noun Clause With 'It'
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me the trick of replacing a noun clause with 'it' or 'so
Eight Kinds Of Adverbial Clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor. List and explain the eight kinds of adverbial clauses — time,
Moving An Adverbial Clause For Effect
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me how moving an adverbial clause to the front, middle o
Fixing A Dangling Participle
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain what a dangling participle is and why 'Walking to sch
Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to tell a dependent clause from an independent one,
Phrasal Verbs: Put Off Versus Put Down
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain why 'put off', 'put down' and 'put up with' mean comp
Adjectival And Adverbial Phrases: Where To Sit
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how to tell an adjectival phrase from an adverbial p
Concord With Quantifiers And Collective Nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain the difference in number between 'each', 'none', 'a n
Sequence Of Tenses Across A Whole Essay
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how to keep one consistent time frame across an enti
Reported Speech: Backshifting Tenses Correctly
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the backshift rules for turning direct speech into r
Inverting After No Sooner
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me how to front a negative adverbial like 'No sooner' an
Idioms With Fixed Grammar
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me why an idiom like 'no sooner said than done' cannot
Countable Versus Uncountable Nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how to use 'a', 'an' and 'some' correctly with count
Demonstrative Pronouns In Context
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain how this, that, these and those function as demonstra
Adjuncts Of Reason That Explain Why
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to identify an adjunct of reason, such as 'As he is