Here is a list of English skills students learn in class VIII! 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 Match the quotations with their themes
B.2 Determine the themes of short stories
C.1 Identify author’s purpose
C.2 Which sentence is more formal?
C.3 Compare passages for tone
D.1 Compare and contrast in informational texts
D.2 Match causes and effects in informational texts
D.3 Match problems with their solutions
D.4 Identify text structures
E.1 Interpret figures of speech
E.2 Classify figures of speech
E.3 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
F.1 Analyse short stories
G.1 Read and understand informational passages
G.2 Trace an argument
H.1 Compare two texts with different genres
Visual elements
I.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
J.1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
J.2 Organise information by main idea
J.3 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
K.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
K.2 Choose evidence to support a claim
K.3 Identify supporting details in informational texts
K.4 Identify supporting details in literary texts
K.5 Identify counterclaims
L.1 Use personification
M.1 Identify active and passive voice
M.2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice
N.1 Use parallel structure
N.2 Remove redundant words or phrases
N.3 Use the correct frequently confused word
N.4 Correct errors with frequently confused words
N.5 Suggest appropriate revisions
O.1 Identify plagiarism
P.1 Words with pre-
P.2 Words with re-
P.3 Words with sub-
P.4 Words with mis-
P.5 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
P.6 Words with -ful
P.7 Words with -less
P.8 Words with -able and -ible
Q.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Q.2 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Q.3 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Q.4 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
R.1 Choose the synonym
R.2 Choose the antonym
S.1 Describe the difference between related words
S.2 Positive and negative connotation
T.1 Use the correct homophone
T.2 Which definition matches the sentence?
T.3 Which sentence matches the definition?
U.1 Analogies
U.2 Analogies: challenge
V.1 Find words using context
V.2 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
V.3 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
V.4 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
W.1 Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
X.1 Alphabetical order
X.2 Use guide words
X.3 Use dictionary entries
X.4 Use dictionary definitions
X.5 Use thesaurus entries
Y.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
Y.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
Y.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
Y.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
Y.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
Y.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
Y.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
Z.1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
Z.2 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Z.3 Identify dependent and independent clauses
Z.4 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
Z.5 Combine sentences using relative clauses
AA.1 Form and use plurals: review
AA.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns
AA.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
AA.4 Form the singular or plural possessive
AA.5 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
AA.6 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
BB.1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents
BB.2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
BB.3 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
BB.4 Identify vague pronoun references
BB.5 Identify all of the possible antecedents
CC.1 Choose between subject and object pronouns
CC.2 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
CC.3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
CC.4 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
CC.5 Use reflexive pronouns
CC.6 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
CC.7 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
CC.8 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
DD.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
DD.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
EE.1 Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
EE.2 Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
EE.3 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
FF.1 Irregular past tense: review
FF.2 Simple past, present and future tense: review
FF.3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
FF.4 Form the progressive verb tenses
FF.5 Form the perfect verb tenses
FF.6 Identify participles and what they modify
FF.7 Identify gerunds and their functions
FF.8 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
GG.1 Identify adjectives
GG.2 Order adjectives
GG.3 Identify adverbs
GG.4 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
GG.5 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
GG.6 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
GG.7 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
GG.8 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
GG.9 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
HH.1 Identify prepositional phrases
II.1 Is it a direct object or an indirect object?
JJ.1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
KK.1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
KK.2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
KK.3 Are the modifiers used correctly?
LL.1 Commas with non-restrictive elements
MM.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
MM.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
MM.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
NN.1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
NN.2 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
OO.1 Use dashes
OO.2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
OO.3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
PP.1 Correct capitalisation errors
PP.2 Capitalising titles
QQ.1 Formatting titles
QQ.2 Formatting and capitalising titles: review