1,158 prompts matching "Practise: using the colon and the semicolon correctly"
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Correcting misplaced prepositions
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me sentences with the wrong preposition,
Direct speech to reported speech with tense backshift
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me sentences in direct speech and ask me to convert them
Correcting ambiguous pronoun reference
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me sentences where a pronoun could refer
Hedging a claim without sounding unsure of everything
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me how to hedge a claim using words like 'may', 'tends
Commonly confused word pairs for WAEC
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Quiz me on word pairs that WAEC loves to confu
Vocabulary for describing character traits
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me a range of precise adjectives for describi
Ranking near-synonyms from neutral to loaded
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me three near-synonyms, like 'crowd', 'mo
Building new words with cross-word style clues
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me cryptic definition-style clues for vocabulary words f
Distinguishing denotation from connotation
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Explain the difference between what a word literally means an
Words that examiners commonly set as odd-one-out
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me sets of four related words and ask me to identify the
Homophone traps WAEC hides in a sentence
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Quiz me on homophones like herd/heard, born/bo
British spelling held consistently across a script
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me the British spellings I must use consistently, such
Spelling words most often missed at SS2 level
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Dictate a list of words that are commonly misspelt at my leve
Punctuation that carries a long argument
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me an unpunctuated argumentative paragraph with several
Correcting commonly confused spelling patterns
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a set of words that share a tricky spelling pattern,
Proofreading a script for mechanical accuracy under time
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a timed short passage full of small me
Distinguishing commonly confused word pairs in writing
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a short piece of writing containing pairs l
Reading for implied meaning versus stated meaning
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a short passage and ask me to separate what the write
Detecting bias hidden inside a noun phrase
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a passage with loaded language like 'this r
Reading a scientific or technical text accurately
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a short scientific or technical passage and ask me to