Starter quiz

  • Which of the following nouns needs a capital letter?
    • anglerfish
    • atlantic  ✓
    • jellyfish
    • antarctic  ✓
  • Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
    • Anglerfish have rough dark mottled and scaled skin.
    • Anglerfish have rough, dark, mottled, and scaled skin.
    • Anglerfish have rough, dark, mottled and scaled skin.  ✓
  • In which sentence is the comma used correctly?
    • In the perpetual darkness anglerfish, have developed hunting strategies.
    • In the perpetual darkness anglerfish have developed, hunting strategies.
    • In the perpetual darkness, anglerfish have developed hunting strategies.  ✓
  • What is the purpose of a subheading?
    • to summarise the whole text
    • to signal each section of the text to the reader  ✓
    • to introduce facts in a sentence
  • Which of these fronted adverbials show that another idea is being added to the previous sentence?
    • Significantly,
    • In the middle of the night,
    • In addition to this,  ✓
    • Also,  ✓
    • As a result,
  • Which of these conjunctions are contrasting conjunctions?
    • but  ✓
    • because
    • however,  ✓
    • when
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