1,146 prompts matching "common English collocations to avoid word-for-word mistakes"
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Fix faulty parallelism in lists and pairs
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Show me sentences with broken parallel structu
Grammatical naming and function on an unseen sentence
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Underline an expression in a sentence and ask
Nominal style against verbal style
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a heavy nominal sentence like 'the implemen
Determiners: few, many, some and a little
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Explain the difference between determiners like 'fe
Modifiers and the order of adjectives
Act as my SS2 grammar tutor. Teach me how word modifiers add meaning, and drill me on the
Comparatives and superlatives without slipping
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Quiz me on forming comparative and superlative adje
Sequence of tense across a paragraph
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Explain how tenses must agree across a paragraph, a
Prefixes de-, dis-, un- and anti-
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Explain the meanings of the prefixes de-, dis-, un-
Noun phrases: structure and function
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Define a noun phrase for me and show me its typical
Using the colon and semicolon correctly
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me the exact rules for using a colon to introduce a lis
Spotting and fixing dangling modifiers
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Explain what a dangling modifier is with a clear ex
Identifying the main clause in a long sentence
Act as my WAEC English coach. I am in SS 2. Give me long, complex sentences from an exam-s
Correcting ambiguous pronoun reference
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me sentences where a pronoun could refer
Vocabulary of agriculture and horticulture
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me farming and horticulture vocabulary like grafting, m
Vocabulary of religion and belief
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me the vocabulary of religion and belief
Vocabulary of sports and athletics
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me sporting vocabulary like heat, disqualification, bat
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
Homonyms and homophones that trip up SS2 students
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me a set of homonyms and homophones commonly
Distinguishing denotation from connotation
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Explain the difference between what a word literally means an
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