Adjective Order
1. Quantity or number
2. Quality or opinion
3. Size
4. Age
5. Shape
6. Color
7. Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
8. Purpose or qualifier

delicious spicy for opinion and Spanish for proper adjective (origin)

Negative goes with positive question

Haven't → have

Most early means earliest

A motion is a proposal that is put before a meeting for discussion and a decision. If a motion is passed it becomes a resolution. Resolutions are binding and should be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

Content

1. You are to write a letter to your friend, discussing two aspects of school life you find enjoyable and encouraging your friend to stay in school

2. You must write on all three parts(referring to the problem, discussing two aspects of school life that are enjoyable and encouraging your friend to stay in school) effectively to earn good mark.

Organization

This is an informal letter, and the following features are mandatory:

1. Your address and date
2. Salutation: Dear + first name of friend
3. Subscription: Yours sincerely/Yours/Your friend/Yours ever, etc.
4. Your first name

Expression

1. This is a letter to a friend; therefore, the language should be chatty to reflect the close relationship between you and your friend.

2. Contracted forms and slang are acceptable but should be controlled.

3. There should be a variety of sentence types.

Mechanical Accuracy

1. Your concord (subject-verb, noun-pronoun), tense, determiners, prepositions and punctuations must be accurate.

2. Your spelling must be accurate.

3. You can either use American or British spelling but must be consistent

4. Each sentence and proper noun should begin with a capital letter. Mark is deducted for using "i" instead of "I" for the first-person pronoun, etc.

Content

1. You are to write a report on what you saw at the National Best Teacher Award ceremony and discuss two lessons you learnt.

2. The essay is in two parts: describing what you saw and discussing two lessons you learnt.

3. You must write on both parts effectively to earn a good mark.

Organization

This is a report, and the following features are mandatory:

1. Heading/title
2. Introduction
3. Body (itemized, sequentially arranged)
4. Conclusion
5. Your signature
6. Your full name
7. Date

The paragraph should be well developed and effectively linked.

Expression

1. The language should be formal and appropriate.

2. Slang, colloquialism and contracted forms are out of place

3. There should be varied sentence patterns and coherence of ideas

4. The use of the past tense of verbs is expected

5. There should be clarity of expression

Mechanical Accuracy

1. Your concord (subject-verb, noun-pronoun), tense, determiners, prepositions and punctuations must be accurate.

2. Your spelling must be accurate.

3. You can either use American or British spelling but must be consistent

4. Each sentence and proper noun should begin with a capital letter. Mark is deducted for using "i" instead of "I" for the first-person pronoun, etc.

Content

1. You are to describe the current state of affairs and discuss two ways of maintaining/improving it.

2. Both parts should be well discussed/illustrated to earn a good mark.

Organization

This is an article, and the following formal features are mandatory:

1. The heading of the article with your name under it or at the end of the article

2. Your contact (address)

3. Paragraphs should be well developed and properly linked

Expression

1. The language should be formal.

2. Slang, colloquialism and contracted forms are out of place

3. Sentence patterns should vary, and you are expected to use appropriate vocabulary.

Mechanical Accuracy

1. Your concord (subject-verb, noun-pronoun), tense, determiners, prepositions and punctuations must be accurate.

2. Your spelling must be accurate.

3. You can either use American or British spelling but must be consistent

4. Each sentence and proper noun should begin with a capital letter. Mark is deducted for using "i" instead of "I" for the first-person pronoun, etc.

Marking Penalties

Marking Penalties

1. Mark is deducted for any grammatical/expression error at each scoring point.

2. When you give two answers and one of them is wrong, zero (0) is awarded. If, however, both answers are correct, full marks awarded.

3. An answer taken as a whole must make sense before it may be accepted for scoring.

4. Zero (0) is awarded for spelling a name, a literary device, etc. wrongly.