We hope you paid attention during your English classes in elementary and secondary school, because it’s exam time!Answer the 12 questions below. But watch out: the level of difficulty increases with each question. Good luck!1. Grade 1: How many consonants are in the word park?3212. Grade 2: What’s the plural of mouse?mousesmice3. Grade 3: How do you spell the past tense form of hop?hoppedhop’dhoped4. Grade 4: What do you call words that have the same meaning?antonymssynonymshomonyms5. Grade 5: What’s the comparative form of the adjective narrow?more narrownarrower6. Grade 6: In the expression at the heart of the matter, is the word heart used in a literal or figurative sense?literal sensefigurative sense7. Grade 7: What register is expressed in the sentence That’s kinda cool?formalcasual8. Grade 8: What language does curriculum vitae come from?LatinGreekItalian9. Grade 9: In the sentence We were skiing in the mountains when the storm hit, which word is the subordinating conjunction?skiinginwhen10. Grade 10: The verb to snow is conjugated only in the third person singular and doesn’t have a defined subject. What’s the name for such verbs?impersonal verbpersonal verbreflexive verb11. Grade 11: Identify the error in the following sentence: Residents of Calgary are called Calgarians, many of them like to ski.spelling errorrun-on sentencesubject-verb disagreement12. Grade 12: Which stylistic device is used to compare two people or things without using the words like or as?hyperboleperiphrasismetaphor
