Mini practice paper: 8 questions
Mixed-difficulty questions from across the English Language Arts syllabus. Tap "Show answer" after each to check yourself.
Q1 · Difficulty 1/3
Choose the correct spelling to complete the sentence: 'Shanice is ___ a letter to her grandmother.'
- writeing
- writting
- wrighting
- writing
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✓ Answer: D — writing
Award 1 mark. The silent e of write is dropped before the ending ing is added. Answering writting doubles the t, which would only happen after a short vowel sound.
Q2 · Difficulty 1/3
Which punctuation mark shows that something belongs to someone, as in the boy's bicycle?
- A full stop
- A question mark
- A comma
- An apostrophe
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✓ Answer: D — An apostrophe
Award 1 mark. The apostrophe followed by s shows that the bicycle belongs to the boy. The same mark is also used to show missing letters, as in don't.
Q3 · Difficulty 1/3
Which word means the opposite of ancient?
- heavy
- modern
- old
- huge
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✓ Answer: B — modern
Award 1 mark. A word with the opposite meaning is called an antonym, and ancient means very old while modern means very new. The word old is a synonym of ancient rather than its opposite.
Q4 · Difficulty 1/3
Which word is the verb in this sentence? 'Anisa ran to the shop.'
- shop
- ran
- to
- Anisa
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✓ Answer: B — ran
Award 1 mark. A verb tells you what someone does, and ran is the action Anisa carried out. Anisa and shop are both nouns.
Q5 · Difficulty 1/3
In the sentence 'The rapid current carried the boat away', what does rapid mean?
- deep
- narrow
- fast
- cold
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✓ Answer: C — fast
Award 1 mark. A current that carries a boat away must be moving quickly, which is the clue the sentence gives. The word says nothing about how cold or deep the water is.
Q6 · Difficulty 1/3
Choose the correct spelling to complete the sentence: 'Devon went to the beach with his best ___.'
- friende
- freind
- frend
- friend
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✓ Answer: D — friend
Award 1 mark. The i comes before the e in this word, which is worth learning by heart because it breaks the usual rhyme. Writing freind reverses those two letters.
Q7 · Difficulty 1/3
Which verb completes the sentence correctly? 'Shanice ___ to school every morning.'
- going
- go
- goes
- gone
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✓ Answer: C — goes
Award 1 mark. Shanice is one person, so the verb takes an s in the present tense. The form going would need a helper word such as is in front of it.
Q8 · Difficulty 1/3
The word I, meaning myself, should be written how?
- With a capital only at the start of a sentence
- With a capital letter every time
- Always with a small letter
- With a capital only in questions
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✓ Answer: B — With a capital letter every time
Award 1 mark. The word I is always capital, wherever it appears in a sentence. It is the only single-letter word in English treated this way.
SEA English Language Arts FAQ
What does the SEA English Language Arts exam look like?
The SEA English Language Arts exam is structured across 2 components. Paper 1: Objective and short-answer questions covering the breadth of the specification. Paper 2: Structured and extended-response questions testing depth of understanding. Total exam time varies by board and tier — typically 2.5 to 3.5 hours.
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