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Common Grammar Errors

Junior High 6 questions
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What common grammar errors means

This skill helps you spot errors in everyday English and choose the correct form. It matters because clear grammar makes your writing and speaking easier to understand in class work, tests and exams.

What you will practise

  • Choose the correct verb form in simple sentences.
  • Match singular and plural subjects with the right verbs.
  • Use common tense forms correctly in short sentences.
  • Spot mistakes in everyday written English and correct them.

Before you start

You should already be comfortable with nouns, pronouns and basic sentence structure. It also helps to know simple present and past tense forms.

Worked example

One question from this skill's own question bank, shown with its full working.

Question

Choose the grammatically correct sentence.

  • She don’t like mangoes.
  • She doesn’t likes mangoes.
  • She doesn’t like mangoes.
  • She not like mangoes.
Answer: She doesn’t like mangoes.

Working: With the third-person singular “she”, we use “doesn’t” followed by the base form “like”.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Using a singular verb after a plural subject. Check whether the subject is one or many before choosing the verb.
  • Adding s to the main verb after he, she or it in negative sentences. Use does not plus the base verb.
  • Mixing up have and has in perfect tense sentences. Match the auxiliary verb with the subject.
  • Forgetting the past participle form in perfect tense. Learn common forms like do, done and go, gone.

Curriculum and exam alignment

Ghana GES Basic 7 to 9 syllabusBECE

This usually appears in Junior High School English under grammar and sentence use. It supports the kind of questions you may meet in BECE preparation, especially sentence correction and verb agreement.

Curriculum notes are a general guide to where this work normally sits. Always check the syllabus your school or examination body is currently using.

Related skills

Other Grammar & Usage Booster skills in English, at the same point in the course.

Other English topics

Letters and SoundsEarly Reading and WritingSHS English and LiteratureAcademic and Professional WritingGrammarVocabulary

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Exams that assess common grammar errors

Junior High work on this skill feeds directly into these exam papers. Each page lists the English topics that appear on it.

BECEBECE practice questionsFree BECE practice across the subjects at this stage, with worked answers.GESGES practice questionsFree GES practice across the subjects at this stage, with worked answers.WASSCEWASSCE practice questionsListed as a related subject on the WASSCE practice page.

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