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ZIMSEC O-Level English Language

7.5.7Sentence construction

Sentence construction in ZIMSEC O-Level English Language: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Overview

Simple, compound and complex sentences; conjunctions, phrases and clauses; punctuation; articles, determiners and prepositions; questions, question tags, commands and exclamations; discourse markers and sentence modifiers.

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Lessons

  • Sentences, clauses and phrases: building and transforming sentences

    35 min

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  • Conjunctions and discourse markers: joining ideas

    35 min

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  • Articles and determiners: a, an, the, some, few and each

    30 min

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  • Prepositions of time, place and movement, and fixed pairs

    30 min

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  • Punctuation: from full stops to speech marks

    35 min

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  • Questions, question tags, commands and exclamations

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Sentence construction: sample question

1 mark

Choose the correct word.

___ sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

Choose one answer

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