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Grade 12 Language structures and conventions

English practice questions and a worked example

Grade 12 English language questions follow the Section C format of Paper 1, for both Home Language and First Additional Language. You analyse advertisements (for example a jeans advert, a composting campaign and a veld-fire warning) and cartoons (Calvin and Hobbes, Zits and Garfield), then correct errors in a short passage and rewrite sentences. The sentence work covers concord, tense, active and passive voice, direct and reported speech, redundancy, homophones, punctuation, word forms and parts of speech. Each question shows the advert, cartoon or passage it is about, so you can practise one skill at a time.

Worked example

3.1 Refer to the headline. How does the advertiser attract the reader's attention? Give TWO points.

Answer

The advertiser attracts the reader's attention by: using capital letters using bigger font using bold font making the letters in the words 'FIRE DANGER' appear 'damaged' making the letter G (in DANGER) appear to be falling using the words 'CAUTION' and 'FIRE DANGER'

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Language structures and conventions

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3.2 Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentence. Fire is everyone's fight. The function of the apostrophe in the above sentence is to indicate ...

Aomission.Bcontraction.Cpossession.Dabbreviation.

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Common mistakes

Changing only one part of a sentence in direct or reported speech. The tense and the punctuation each earn a mark.
Naming an advertising technique without quoting an example and explaining its effect on the reader.
Writing part of the sentence when the question asks you to rewrite the whole sentence in a new form.