Grammar

Learn what verbs are and how you can use them in your writing.

Learn how to use verbs to form the past, present and future tense.

Learn to make sure the subject of a sentence matches the verb correctly.

Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence, examples are 'him', 'her' and 'them'.

Find out what adjectives are and how they are used in your writing in this Year 3 and 4 guide.

An adverb tells you how something happens, like quickly and slowly.

When the subject of a sentence isn't active the verb is passive. If you want to make a sentence active, the subject of the sentence should be doing something.

Find out how modal verbs can be used in your writing.

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else, like "after","before" or "on".

A subordinate conjunction joins two ideas or clauses in a sentence.

Conjunctions are joining words, coordinating conjunctions join groups of words about similar things.

A relative clause starts with a relative pronoun (who, that, which, whose, where, when) and is often added to a sentence to define a noun.

Learn how to write sentences that include the word 'because'.

Practise using conjunctions and, but, for, or, while, until, before, after, because in order to extend sentences.

Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun, so the reader will have more information.

What are fronted adverbials? When can you use them to replace adverbials?