English-to-Hebrew Composition - the Restricted Scope

The other ten marks 🔀

For each unseen passage in Section A you choose one of two ten-mark tasks: **grammar identification**, or **English-to-Hebrew composition**. You do not have to make the same choice on both passages. Candidates often avoid composition because it sounds like writing Hebrew from scratch. It is not. It is the more **bounded** of the two tasks, and this module is about the boundary: what you are allowed to reach for, and what the paper will never ask you to invent.

A list inside a list 📋

Your reading vocabulary is already closed: **Appendix 1** is a fixed Hebrew-English word list, and the passages stay inside it. Composition is governed by **Appendix 4**, which is a **smaller, separately restricted subset** of it. Two things follow, and they are the whole task: **1. A word you can read may not be a word you may write.** Knowing it from a passage does not put it in scope for composition. **2. Every entry is tagged** with the part of speech or the binyan it must be used in. The tag does not just permit the word. It **dictates the form you write**.

What does the tag do? 🏷️

An Appendix 4 entry carries a tag such as "qal verb" or "noun". What does that tag oblige you to do?

• Use the word only in that part of speech or binyan
• Use the word in whichever form best fits your sentence
• Recognise the word when reading, but not write it
• Write the word without pointing

Inside and outside the boundary ⚖️

Suppose the list gives you כָּתַב (katav), "he wrote", tagged as a **qal verb**. Reading across shows what that tag settles.

Match each form to what it is

The rule 📝

Composition is governed by Appendix _____, which is a restricted _____ of the reading list. So a word you can _____ is not automatically a word you may write. Each entry is _____ with the part of speech or binyan it must appear in, which means the tag fixes the _____ you write, not only the word.

Three tools you already have 🧰

You are choosing among constructions you have already been taught, not inventing new ones. These three carry most short composition sentences:

Order the method 🪜

An interactive activity.

Which stay in scope? ✅

The list gives you כָּתַב tagged as a qal verb, and מֶלֶךְ tagged as a noun. Select the TWO decisions that keep your answer inside the restriction.

• Writing וַיִּכְתֹּב for "and he wrote"
• Using a verbless clause where English says "is"
• Writing נִכְתַּב because a passive reads more naturally
• Borrowing a word from the passage that is not on the list

Compose it 🧭

An interactive activity.

The summary 🖊️

Composition is one of two _____-mark options per passage, and the other one is grammar identification. The vocabulary you may use is _____ than your reading vocabulary, and every entry is tagged with the binyan or part of speech it must appear in. Where a word is missing you _____ the English rather than invent Hebrew. Where English says "is", Hebrew often needs a _____ clause. And your answer is written _____, because the pointing is part of it.

Your turn ✍️

An interactive activity.