PRIMARY 5 · ENGLISH

Synthesis
Top 5 mistakes

Ranked by how often they appear across 36 MOE-aligned practice questions in our archive.

#1Misconception

'Will' is not backshifted. In reported speech with a past reporting verb ('announced'), 'will' must shift to 'would'.

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#2Misconception

'Had inspected' is past perfect, used to backshift past simple or present perfect. The original 'will' (future) backshifts to 'would', not past perfect.

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#3Partial logic

'Would have inspected' is the past conditional/perfect form, suggesting the inspection did not happen. The original 'will inspect' is a simple future, which backshifts to 'would'.

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#4Misconception

Missing the auxiliary verb 'be'. Passive voice always needs a form of 'be' before the past participle.

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#5Misconception

Wrong tense. The active sentence is past simple (cooked), so the passive must also be past: 'was cooked', not present 'is cooked'.

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