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Grade 10 Language structures and conventions

English practice questions and a worked example

Grade 10 English language questions come from Section C of Paper 1, at First Additional Language and Home Language level: analysing advertisements, analysing cartoons, and language and editing skills. The questions here ask you to identify the target audience and techniques of an advertisement, explain the humour, irony and visual clues in a cartoon, correct errors such as concord and malapropisms in a passage, and change sentences into the passive voice, reported speech, the negative or another tense. They come from the North West Grade 10 English Paper 1 for June 2018, June 2019 and June 2024 (First Additional Language) and June 2018 and June 2019 (Home Language), each with the answer from the marking guideline.

Worked example

QUESTION 3: ANALYSING AN ADVERTISEMENT Study the advertisement (TEXT D) and answer the questions set on it. 3.1 What is being advertised?

Answer

A book sale / discounted books.

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QUESTION 3: ANALYSING AN ADVERTISEMENT Study the advertisement (TEXT D) and answer the questions set on it. 3.3.1 Identify and write down the slogan.

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Common mistakes

Changing only part of a sentence in reported speech. Move the verb one tense back and change the pronouns and words such as “this” to “that”.
Leaving out “by” or the right form of “to be” in the passive voice.
Naming only one clue when a cartoon question asks for a verbal and a visual clue.