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Year 11 in England

10th grade grammar

7 10th grade grammar skills, each with a worked example, free practice that checks every answer, and a printable worksheet. Start with a mixed review, or jump to the skill you need.

Mixed review

Ten questions drawn from every skill below.

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Modifier placement in complex sentences

CCSS L.9-10.1England: SAT Standard English ConventionsEngland: ACT English

Example

Known for her bold colours, ___ Which choice completes the sentence correctly?

  1. An introductory modifier describes the noun that comes straight after the comma.
  2. The painter is known for bold colours, so 'the painter' follows the comma.
  3. So the answer is: the painter filled the gallery with bright canvases.

Answer: the painter filled the gallery with bright canvases.

Builds on: Misplaced and dangling modifiers

Leads to: SAT/ACT Standard English Conventions (mixed), After an opening modifier, choose the right subject (SAT)

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Usage: fewer/less, lay/lie, who/that, between/among

CCSS L.9-10.1CCSS L.11-12.1.AEngland: GCSE English Language (Standard English)England: ACT English

Example

Choose the word that is correct in formal English. I feel ___ about the mix-up.

  1. These pairs follow rules of formal usage.
  2. After 'feel' (a linking verb) use the adjective 'bad'.
  3. Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "I feel bad about the mix-up."
  4. So the answer is: bad

Answer: bad

Builds on: Pronoun case (I/me, who/whom)

Leads to: Easily confused words: complement/compliment, imply/infer, elicit/illicit…, Idiomatic prepositions (consistent with, capable of, prefer…to)

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Identifying phrase types: absolute, appositive, participle, gerund…

CCSS L.9-10.1.BEngland: GCSE English Language (AO6 sentence structures)England: A-level English Language

Example

What kind of phrase is in brackets? [To finish on time], we skipped lunch.

  1. Phrase types: appositive (renames), participle (describes), gerund (acts as a noun), infinitive (to + verb), prepositional (preposition + object), absolute (noun + participle modifying the whole sentence).
  2. to + verb, explaining why.
  3. So the answer is: infinitive phrase

Answer: infinitive phrase

Builds on: -ing words: gerund, participle or main verb?, Infinitive phrases: noun, adjective or adverb job?, Combining sentences with appositives and participle phrases

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Past perfect for the earlier of two past events

CCSS L.9-10.1CCSS L.5.1.BEngland: GCSE English Language (AO6)England: SAT Standard English Conventions (Form, Structure, and Sense)

Example

Choose the verb form that shows the order of events correctly. By 2010, the company ___ over a million phones.

  1. Use the past perfect (had + past participle) for an action completed before another past action or time.
  2. 'By 2010' marks a past deadline: past perfect.
  3. Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "By 2010, the company had sold over a million phones."
  4. So the answer is: had sold

Answer: had sold

Builds on: Irregular past tense and past participles (swam/swum, began/begun), Perfect tenses (past, present, future), Verb tense and form in context

Leads to: Choosing verb tense from context clues (SAT)

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Mixed conditionals: past cause, present result (and vice versa)

CCSS L.9-10.1CCSS L.8.1.CEngland: GCSE English Language (AO6)England: A-level English Language

Example

Choose the verb form that completes this mixed conditional. If I had gone to bed earlier, I ___ so tired now.

  1. Mixed conditionals combine a past condition with a present result, or a present condition with a past result.
  2. Past action → present feeling.
  3. Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "If I had gone to bed earlier, I wouldn't be so tired now."
  4. So the answer is: wouldn't be

Answer: wouldn't be

Builds on: Conditionals (zero, first, second, third), The subjunctive: if I were, I wish it were, I suggest she be

Leads to: Advanced subjunctive: were it not for, lest, that she not be

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Avoiding double comparatives and comparing absolutes

CCSS L.9-10.1CCSS L.11-12.1.BEngland: GCSE English Language (AO6 Standard English)England: ACT English

Example

Which sentence is correct in formal English? • The water was the most frozen. • The water was more frozen than ever. • The water was very completely frozen. • The water was completely frozen.

  1. Use -er/-est OR more/most, never both; use the comparative for two things; avoid grading absolute adjectives in formal writing.
  2. 'Frozen' (solid ice) is an absolute state here.
  3. So the answer is: The water was completely frozen.

Answer: The water was completely frozen.

Builds on: Logical comparisons: comparing like with like

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Idiomatic prepositions (consistent with, capable of, prefer…to)

CCSS L.9-10.1CCSS L.11-12.1.AEngland: SAT Standard English ConventionsEngland: ACT English (idioms)England: GCSE English Language (AO6)

Example

Choose the preposition that is correct in standard English. I prefer reading ___ watching TV.

  1. Many verbs, adjectives and nouns take a particular preposition (an idiom). Learn them as pairs.
  2. Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "I prefer reading to watching TV."
  3. So the answer is: to

Answer: to

Builds on: Prepositions of time, place and cause, Usage: fewer/less, lay/lie, who/that, between/among

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