Improving an essay on Prospero's power over Caliban in 'The Tempest' | English

Starter quiz

Which piece of punctuation needs to go at the end of a sentence?
- comma
- full-stop ✓
- semi-colon
What does it mean to edit your work?
- Plan your work.
- Write your work.
- Review and improve your work. ✓
What is the punctuation error in this sentence: 'Calibans afraid of Prospero.'?
- There should be an apostrophe after 'Caliban'. ✓
- There should be a comma after 'Caliban'.
- There should be a semi-colon after 'Caliban'.
What is a synonym?
- A word that has a similar meaning. ✓
- A word that has an opposite meaning.
- A word that sounds the same.
What does a tense disagreement mean?
- Where one part of the sentence is in past tense and the other in present tense. ✓
- Where the sentence is in the same tense.
- Where both parts of the sentence are in the past tense.
- Where a comma has been used incorrectly.
What is a homophone?
- A word with a similar meaning.
- A word with the same sound. ✓
- A word with the opposite sound.

What do you always need at the start of a sentence?
- a capital letter ✓
- the word 'the'
- a name
- a lower-case letter
If something is ambitious then it means...
- It involves a lot of effort. ✓
- It doesn't involve a lot of effort.
- It's easy to do.
To elevate your work means to...
- write it
- improve it ✓
- make it worse
- review your work
What is grammar?
- The way ambitious words are written and spelled.
- The rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences. ✓
- Words with a similar meaning that are easy to muddle up when spelling.
- Reviewing and improving your work.
Which is the correct word for this sentence: 'Prospero and Caliban's harsh words shows ______ relationship is one of animosity.'?
- there
- their ✓
- they're
Which of the following would be an appropriate synonym for 'acting meanly'?
- acting cruelly ✓
- exploits
- enslaves
- acting judiciously

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Having accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar allows your work to be clearly understood.
Using synonyms for key words in the question shows a secure understanding of the task.
Responding to feedback helps to elevate your work.

That proofreading is a waste of time.

Proofreading helps you to spot errors that might hinder the readers' understanding of your work.

Grammar - Grammar refers to the rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences.
Elevate - To elevate something means to improve it.
Editing - Editing is the process of making changes to an answer to improve it.
Ambitious - If something is ambitious then it takes a lot of skill and effort to be successful.