English Language

The eight parts of speech, open versus closed word classes, and how to identify a word class by its function in context rather than by position or guesswork.

The complete set of concord rules — compound subjects, intervening expressions, proximity with either/or and neither/nor, indefinite pronouns, collective nouns, and singular-plural noun forms — drilled with WAEC objective traps.

The 12 pure vowels and 8 diphthongs of English, long/short contrasts that trip Ghanaian speakers (seat/sit, fool/full), minimal pairs, and reading phonemic transcriptions in WASSCE Oral Paper 3.

The five basic sentence patterns built from Subject, Verb, Object, Complement and Adverbial; recognising noun, verb, prepositional, adjectival and adverbial phrases, and using phrase substitution tests.

Countable versus uncountable nouns, regular and irregular plural forms, the rules for a/an/the and the zero article, and quantifiers such as much/many, few/a few, little/a little.

Attributive vs predicative adjectives, adjective order, regular and irregular comparatives and superlatives, the "any other + singular" pattern, and correct positioning of adverbs.

The in/on/at system for time and place, prepositions of movement, agent vs instrument (by/with), since/for, between/among, and the fixed-preposition lists WAEC tests repeatedly.

Simple, continuous and perfect aspects across past, present, future and future-in-the-past; the present-perfect versus past-simple choice; time markers that force a tense; and the sequence-of-tenses habit for reported and complex sentences.

Converting between voices across all tenses, handling two-object and phrasal verbs, the by/with agent-instrument distinction, and when passive voice is the better choice in WAEC writing.

Reporting statements, questions, commands and exclamations: backshift of tenses, pronoun and time-word changes, universal-truth exception, and the question-word/word-order trap.

Full WAEC-format informal letter — address, date, greeting, conversational body, closing — with tone control, the marking scheme (content, organisation, expression, mechanical accuracy), and paragraph planning.

The 24 consonant phonemes organised by voiced/voiceless pairs and manner of articulation, Ghanaian substitution errors (θ/f, l/r, final cluster cutting), homophones, and the pronunciation of -s and -ed endings.

Building nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with derivational prefixes and suffixes, negative prefixes, stress shifts in derived words, and using formation knowledge in comprehension and cloze.

A complete method for WAEC prose comprehension: surveying the passage, literal location skills, inference questions, reference words, tone and purpose, and the vocabulary-in-context formats.

The SHS 1 foundation for WAEC summary: identifying task-relevant points, excluding examples and repetition, paraphrasing without distortion, sentence-combining, and word-limit discipline.

The WAEC hot-list of look-alike and sound-alike word pairs (effect/affect, less/fewer, principal/principle, may/can), plus formal versus informal register choices for compositions and letters.