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Language & Comprehension Notes - IEB English Home Language Paper 1
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Notes on Language & Comprehension. Applicable for Students writing the IEB English Home Language Paper 1 Exam.
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IEBENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE
PAPER 1
LANGUAGE & COMPREHENSION
NOTES
,Contents
Contents....................................................................................................................................... 2
Extra Online Resources.............................................................................................................. 3
Terminology................................................................................................................................. 3
Punctuation.................................................................................................................................. 3
Parts of Speech............................................................................................................................4
Question types.............................................................................................................................5
Examine whether the sentence is grammatically correct.........................................................5
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentences........................................................5
Rewrite into reported speech - Direct to Indirect Speech........................................................ 5
Explain the grammatical difference between........................................................................... 5
Explain the irony/pun............................................................................................................... 5
Paper 1: Overview........................................................................................................................6
Remember the following words................................................................................................. 6
Answering Technique..................................................................................................................8
Sentences................................................................................................................................9
The Summary............................................................................................................................. 10
Specifically for the poetry:........................................................................................................11
Grammar and Punctuation........................................................................................................11
Poetry..........................................................................................................................................12
Elizabethan/Shakespearean..................................................................................................14
Petrachan/Italian....................................................................................................................14
Language & Grammer............................................................................................................... 14
Correct Errors........................................................................................................................ 16
, Extra Online Resources
● https://youtu.be/0l69KEx7GQo?si=Zmd_eiuewOAP0yfd
● https://youtu.be/OY2zPFQsKSI?si=D8Sj6mS6CIlSl2gG
● https://youtu.be/P4je1SNqPxA?si=sc-MxinzrYdL8X9L
Terminology
● Satire: the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's
stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
● Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite,
typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
● Homophone: each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different
meanings, origins, or spelling, for example new and knew.
● Homonym: each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but
different meanings and origins.
● Grammar: the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually
taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also
phonology and semantics.
● Participle: verb form ending in “-ing” or “-ed”
● Subjective:
● Objective:
Punctuation
● Full stop
- Indicate the end of a complete sentence
- Used after abbreviations
● Colon
- Introduce list
- Explain a previous clause
- Introduce a direct speech
● Semicolon
- join independent parts (clauses) of a sentence
- Introduce list
● Comma
- separate/enclose parts of sentence (parentheses)
- Use to write a list of items
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