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Aga Khan University Examination Board English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) Flashcards
50 question-and-answer cards covering English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) as it is examined in Aga Khan University Examination Board. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
What is personification?
Personification is giving human qualities or actions to non-human things or ideas, e.g. 'The wind whispered'.
What is the theme of a poem?
The central message, idea, or insight about life that the poem conveys.
Name the eight parts of speech in English.
Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
What is a noun? Give the main types.
A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. Types include common, proper, abstract, concrete, collective, and countable/uncountable.
What is the function of an adjective and of an adverb?
An adjective describes or modifies a noun or pronoun; an adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is a preposition? Give two examples.
A preposition shows the relationship of a noun/pronoun to another word, often of place or time, e.g. 'in', 'on', 'under', 'before'.
What is a conjunction? Name the three main types.
A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses. The three types are coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions.
What is the difference between the simple present and present continuous tense?
Simple present states habits or general truths (e.g. 'She writes'); present continuous shows an action happening now (e.g. 'She is writing').
How is the present perfect tense formed and used?
It is formed with has/have + past participle (e.g. 'He has gone') and shows a past action with a present result or an unfinished time period.
What are the three forms of a regular verb? Give an example.
Base, past simple, and past participle. For 'walk': walk, walked, walked.
Give the three forms of the irregular verb 'go'.
go (base), went (past simple), gone (past participle).
How is the simple future tense formed?
With 'will' (or 'shall') + the base form of the verb, e.g. 'They will arrive tomorrow'.
What is the difference between an active and a passive verb form?
In the active voice the subject performs the action ('The cat caught the mouse'); in the passive the subject receives it ('The mouse was caught by the cat').
What is a subject and a predicate in a sentence?
The subject is who or what the sentence is about; the predicate is the part containing the verb that tells what the subject does or is.
What is a clause? How does it differ from a phrase?
A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb; a phrase is a group of words lacking a subject-verb pair.
What is the difference between an independent and a dependent clause?
An independent (main) clause can stand alone as a sentence; a dependent (subordinate) clause cannot and needs a main clause.
Name the four sentence structures by clause type.
Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
What is a compound sentence and how are its clauses joined?
A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or), a semicolon, or a conjunctive adverb.
What is a complex sentence?
A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause, e.g. 'She smiled because she won'.
When are the four sentence types by function, and name them.
Declarative (states), interrogative (asks), imperative (commands), and exclamatory (expresses strong feeling).
What is the main use of the apostrophe in English?
To show possession (e.g. 'John's book') and to mark omitted letters in contractions (e.g. 'don't').
When should a comma be used before a coordinating conjunction?
When the conjunction joins two independent clauses, e.g. 'I was tired, but I kept working'.
What is a synonym and what is an antonym? Give an example of each.
A synonym is a word with a similar meaning (happy/glad); an antonym is a word with the opposite meaning (happy/sad).
Give a synonym and an antonym for the word 'brave'.
Synonym: courageous (or bold); Antonym: cowardly (or timid).
What this deck covers
The English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) deck follows the Aga Khan University Examination Board English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) syllabus — 6 chapters and 22 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 8.3 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 108 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) flashcards FAQ
How many English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) flashcards are in this Aga Khan University Examination Board deck?
50 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
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What do the English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) cards cover?
They follow the Aga Khan University Examination Board English Compulsory (SSC IX-X) syllabus — 6 chapters and 22 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
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