Second Term Exam Revision

Which of the following uses the correct order of Adjectives? 

• It was made of a strange, green, metallic material.

• It was made of a green, strange, metallic material. 

• It was made of a metallic, green, strange material. 

Expository writing involves the following EXCEPT

• Narration

• Research

• Detailed Illustration

Dr. Joe told Tolu to take a spoonful of blood tonic on Monday, then on Tuesday, he is to take two _________________ 

• Spoonsful

• spoon fuls

• Spoonsfull

• Spoonsfulls

John fell and felt the sting as sharp as thorns tear at her bare skin and clothes.       What sense did the writer describe?

• sight

• smell

• sound

• touch

This time tomorrow we ………………………. Raj’s birthday. 

• were celebrating

• will be celebrating

• celebrated

An interrobang is a combination of _____ and _______ 

• full stop and comma

• exclamation mark and full stop

• question mark and exclamation mark

• question mark and a bang

Use a hyphen to join two or more words to form compound adjectives that precede a noun

• True

• False

Which punctuation mark is used to denote date and time span

• hyphen

• en dash

• em dash

• ellipsis

Which of the expressions below correctly uses the hyphen.

• This rock-hard cake is absolutely impossible to eat.

• Do you expect me to believe this clearly-impossible story?

• The room was like a heavily-decorated chocolate box.

In a formal letter, which of the following comes first?

• Salutation

• Writer's address

• Receiver's address