Year 10 English

Turn a word into a noun, adjective, verb or adverb by changing its ending.

Choose the tense each gap in a passage needs, using the time signals around it.

Make the verb agree when the subject is a quantity, a fraction, an inverted phrase or a subject buried in an added phrase.

Form the passive in any tense, and with a modal verb or an imperative.

Report several turns of a conversation, keeping the tense shift, the pronouns and the reporting verbs consistent throughout.

Fill the articles, determiners and prepositions an exam-style gap-fill leaves out.

Rewrite a sentence as simple, compound or complex without changing what it means.

Link ideas across sentences with the connector that shows the right relationship.

Name the kind of mistake a faulty line contains — agreement, tense, article, preposition or word form — and then correct it.

Find and correct the single error in a line — grammar, spelling or punctuation.

Answer questions on an extract — what it states, what it implies, and what its words mean there.

Cut a passage to its essential points and write them out as your own connected sentences.

Turn a chart or a table into one paragraph that reports what it shows, without listing every figure on it.

Write a letter to an official that names its business at once and keeps its language businesslike to the end.