Here is a list of English skills students learn in class IX! 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. Nexustutor will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
A.1 Determine the main idea of a passage
B.1 Which text is most formal?
B.2 Identify audience and purpose
B.3 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
B.4 Compare passages for tone
C.1 Identify the narrative point of view
C.2 Interpret figures of speech
C.3 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
C.4 Classify figures of speech: review
C.5 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
D.1 Match the quotations with their themes
D.2 Analyse short stories: set 1
D.3 Analyse short stories: set 2
E.1 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
E.2 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
E.3 Trace an argument: set 1
E.4 Trace an argument: set 2
E.5 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
E.6 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
F.1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
F.2 Organise information by main idea
G.1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
H.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
H.2 Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
H.3 Choose the best evidence to support a claim
H.4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
H.5 Evaluate counterclaims
H.6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
H.7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims
I.1 Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
I.2 Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing
J.1 Use personification
K.1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
K.2 Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
K.3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
K.4 Use parallel structure
K.5 Remove redundant words or phrases
L.1 Identify active and passive voice
L.2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice
M.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
M.2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
M.3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
M.4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
M.5 Correct errors in everyday use
M.6 Suggest appropriate revisions
N.1 Identify plagiarism
O.1 Word pattern analogies
O.2 Word pattern sentences
O.3 Words with pre-
O.4 Words with re-
O.5 Words with sub-
O.6 Words with mis-
O.7 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
O.8 Words with -ful
O.9 Words with -less
O.10 Words with -able and -ible
P.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
P.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
P.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Q.1 Use the correct homophone
Q.2 Identify and correct errors with homophones
R.1 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
R.2 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
R.3 Use the correct foreign expression
S.1 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
S.2 Use words accurately and precisely
S.3 Replace words using a thesaurus
T.1 Analogies
T.2 Analogies: challenge
U.1 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
U.2 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
U.3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
V.1 Use dictionary entries
V.2 Use dictionary definitions
V.3 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
V.4 Use thesaurus entries
W.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
W.2 Identify sentence fragments
W.3 Identify run-on sentences
W.4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
X.1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
X.2 Identify prepositional phrases
X.3 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
X.4 Identify dependent and independent clauses
X.5 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
X.6 Combine sentences using relative clauses
Y.1 Form and use plurals: review
Y.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns
Z.1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
Z.2 Subject and object pronouns review
Z.3 Pronouns after ‘than’ and ‘as’
Z.4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with ‘who’
Z.5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Z.6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
Z.7 Identify vague pronoun references
Z.8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
Z.9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
AA.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
AA.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
AA.3 Identify participles and what they modify
AA.4 Identify gerunds and their functions
AA.5 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
BB.1 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
BB.2 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
BB.3 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
CC.1 Form the progressive verb tenses
CC.2 Form the perfect verb tenses
CC.3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
DD.1 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
DD.2 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
DD.3 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
DD.4 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
EE.1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
FF.1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
FF.2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
FF.3 Are the modifiers used correctly?
GG.1 Commas with non-restrictive elements
HH.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
HH.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
HH.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
II.1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
II.2 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
II.3 Semicolons, colons and commas: review
JJ.1 Use dashes
JJ.2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
JJ.3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
KK.1 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
KK.2 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
LL.1 Correct capitalisation errors
MM.1 Capitalising titles
MM.2 Formatting titles
MM.3 Formatting and capitalising titles: review