Year 12 English
Here is a list of English skills students learn in year 12! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Sentence structure
- A.1 Identify sentence fragments
- A.2 Identify run-on sentences
- A.3 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- A.4 Is it a phrase or a clause?
- A.5 Identify prepositional phrases
- A.6 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
- A.7 Identify dependent and independent clauses
- A.8 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
- A.9 Combine sentences using relative clauses
Pronouns
- B.1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
- B.2 Subject and object pronouns review
- B.3 Pronouns after 'than' and 'as'
- B.4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who'
- B.5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- B.6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- B.7 Identify vague pronoun references
- B.8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
Verbs and verbals
- C.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
- C.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- C.3 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
- C.4 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- C.5 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
- C.6 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- C.7 Form the progressive verb tenses
- C.8 Form the perfect verb tenses
- C.9 Identify participles and what they modify
- C.10 Identify gerunds and their functions
- C.11 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Punctuation and capitalisation
- E.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
- E.2 Commas with compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
- E.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- E.4 Commas: review
- E.5 What does the punctuation suggest?
- E.6 Commas with nonrestrictive elements
- E.7 Join sentences with semicolons, colons and commas
- E.8 Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations and appositives
- E.9 Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series
- E.10 Semicolons, colons and commas review
- E.11 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- E.12 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- E.13 Use dashes
- E.14 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- E.15 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- E.16 Correct capitalisation errors
Prefixes and suffixes
Etymologies and foreign expressions
- G.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- G.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- G.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- G.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- G.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
- G.6 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
- G.7 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- G.8 Use the correct foreign expression
Word choice and usage
- H.1 Describe the difference between related words
- H.2 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- H.3 Use words accurately and precisely
- H.4 Replace words using a thesaurus
- H.5 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
- H.6 Explore words with new or contested usages
- H.7 Analogies
- H.8 Analogies: challenge
Writing clear and concise sentences
- J.1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
- J.2 Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
- J.3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
- J.4 Use parallel structure
- J.5 Remove redundant words or phrases
- J.6 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
- J.7 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
- J.8 Are the modifiers used correctly?
Common errors
- K.1 Use the correct homophone
- K.2 Identify and correct errors with homophones
- K.3 Use the correct frequently confused word
- K.4 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
- K.5 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
- K.6 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- K.7 Correct errors in everyday use
Writing process
Writing arguments
Author's purpose and tone
Literary devices
- O.1 Identify the narrative point of view
- O.2 Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
- O.3 Recall the source of an allusion
- O.4 Interpret the figure of speech
- O.5 Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
- O.6 Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
- O.7 Classify the figure of speech: review
- O.8 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone