Delta Publications – Smart Exam Pad
📅 Topic Coverage: 8th December to 27th December 2025
📝 Delta Quarterly Test 2 Date: 27th December 2025
🎓 Class: 8th Class (Grade 8)

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📚 Weekly Focus Topics – Vocabulary

No.	Topic
1.	Sentences, fragments and run-ons Y.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? Y.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence Y.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence Y.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence Y.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? Y.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? Y.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
2.	Phrases and clauses Z.1 Is it a phrase or a clause? Z.2 Identify appositives and appositive phrases Z.3 Identify dependent and independent clauses Z.4 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Z.5 Combine sentences using relative clauses
3.	Nouns AA.1 Form and use plurals: review AA.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns AA.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives AA.4 Form the singular or plural possessive AA.5 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns AA.6 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
4.	Pronouns and antecedents BB.1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents BB.2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent BB.3 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person BB.4 Identify vague pronoun references BB.5 Identify all of the possible antecedents
5.	Pronoun types CC.1 Choose between subject and object pronouns CC.2 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’ CC.3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns CC.4 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns CC.5 Use reflexive pronouns CC.6 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive? CC.7 Use relative pronouns: who and whom CC.8 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
6.	Verb types DD.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs DD.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
7.	Subject-verb agreement EE.1 Correct errors with subject-verb agreement EE.2 Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement EE.3 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
8.	Verb tense FF.1 Irregular past tense: review FF.2 Simple past, present and future tense: review FF.3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense FF.4 Form the progressive verb tenses FF.5 Form the perfect verb tenses FF.6 Identify participles and what they modify FF.7 Identify gerunds and their functions FF.8 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
9.	Adjectives and adverbs GG.1 Identify adjectives GG.2 Order adjectives GG.3 Identify adverbs GG.4 Choose between adjectives and adverbs GG.5 Is the word an adjective or adverb? GG.6 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives GG.7 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst GG.8 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs GG.9 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst

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✅ Important Notes for Students

• Revise using Smart Exam Pad (Delta Publications).
• Practice with word cards, matching worksheets, and simple sentence examples.
• Focus on common synonyms (happy–joyful, small–tiny) and common antonyms (hot–cold, big–small).
• Delta Quarterly Test 2 will cover both topics listed above.

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📌 Tip for Preparation
✏️ Use flashcards, matching games, and picture-word activities to remember synonyms and antonyms easily.
🎯 Play “Find the Twin” for synonyms and “Find the Opposite” for antonyms to make learning fun!