📖 Revision Guide — Grade 12 English
The Grade 12 traps this bank targets.
- despite + noun/-ing · although + clause. Mixing them is the #1 trap.
- Inversion: Never / Rarely / No sooner...than / Hardly...when force auxiliary-subject order.
- wish: + past = present regret · + had V3 = past regret.
- used to do = past habit · be used to doing = accustomed.
- as = role/because · like = similar to.
- Indirect questions keep statement order: Do you know where he is?
- Collocations: make a decision, take a risk, do research, pay attention.
- Word families: decide → decision → decisive · analyze → analysis → analytical.
🔁 despite × although + wish
| Word | Followed by | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Despite | noun / -ing | Despite the rain |
| Although | subject + verb | Although it rained |
| wish + past | present regret | I wish I knew |
| wish + had V3 | past regret | I wish I had known |
No sooner...thanfixed pair
Hardly...whenfixed pair