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Year 9 students sitting their final NAPLAN need to be confident with authors adapting and subverting text structures. Examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination. Skillo has targeted practice questions for this exact skill, mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9.0, free and ready to go.

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What is tested: Authors adapting and subverting text structures

✓Examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination.
✓Questions are based on original Australian passages
✓Text types include narrative, informative and persuasive

Sample questions

Question 1 — Easy

Identify the sentence that correctly uses the subjunctive mood. The context is a school debate about environmental policy.

A) Tom suggested that the government increases funding for renewable energy.

B) Tom suggested that the government increasing funding for renewable energy.

C) Tom suggested that the government would increase funding for renewable energy.

D) Tom suggested that the government increase funding for renewable energy.

Answer: Option D is correct because after verbs like "suggested" followed by "that," we use the subjunctive mood, which requires the base form of the verb — so "increase" is used regardless of the subject. Option A is incorrect because "increases" adds an -s ending, which belongs to the indicative mood, not the subjunctive.

Question 2 — Medium

Read the following sentence and identify the grammatical error: 'Every morning, Luca and his brother argues about who gets the bathroom first, which drives their parents absolutely mad.' What is the error in this sentence?

A) The pronoun 'their' should be 'his'.

B) The verb 'argues' should be 'argue' to agree with the compound subject 'Luca and his brother'.

C) The word 'absolutely' is an incorrect modifier and should be removed.

D) The verb 'drives' should be 'drive' to agree with the subject 'which'.

Answer: Option B is correct — The compound subject 'Luca and his brother' is plural, so the verb must be 'argue', not 'argues'. 'Drives' is correct because 'which' refers to the singular situation described.

Question 3 — Hard

Select the sentence that correctly uses 'who' or 'whom'. The context involves a school debate competition at a secondary college in Victoria.

A) The judge, who the students had admired for years, gave thoughtful feedback after the debate.

B) The judge, whom the students had admired for years, gave thoughtful feedback after the debate.

C) The judge who the students had admired for years, gave thoughtful feedback after the debate.

D) The judge, whom had admired the students for years, gave thoughtful feedback after the debate.

Answer: Option B is correct — 'Whom' is correct because it functions as the object of the verb 'admired' in the relative clause (the students admired him/her); 'who' is used for subjects, not objects.

How to use Skillo for Year 9 Reading

Select Year 9 and Reading on the home screen
Use Quick Practice — questions on authors adapting and subverting text structures will appear as part of the session
Check the Skill Breakdown on your profile to track your accuracy on authors adapting and subverting text structures specifically
Review explanations after each question to understand the reasoning behind correct answers

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