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Skillo provides free Year 9 NAPLAN Authors adapting and subverting text structures practice (AC9E9LA03) for Australian students. No signup, no email, no credit card. Practice questions aligned with the ACARA Australian Curriculum v9.0 strand. Open and start in 10 seconds.

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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 does the Year 9 NAPLAN Authors adapting and subverting text structures test cover?

  • 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

Try a sample Authors adapting and subverting text structures question

Question 1Easy

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 2Medium

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.

Question 3Hard

Read the following sentence and choose the option that corrects the error in subject–verb agreement. 'The data collected from all three remote outback stations suggest that rainfall levels has declined significantly over the past decade.'

A) Change 'suggest' to 'suggests' and 'has' to 'have'
B) Change 'suggest' to 'suggests' and leave 'has' unchanged
C) Leave 'suggest' unchanged and change 'has' to 'have'
D) Change both 'suggest' and 'has' to their singular forms

Answer: Option C is correct — 'Data' is treated as a plural noun in formal contexts, so 'suggest' is correct; however, 'levels' is the subject of the second clause, making 'have' (plural) the correct verb form rather than 'has'.

How should my child prepare for Year 9 NAPLAN Authors adapting and subverting text structures?

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

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