Grammar
What is a verb?
Learn what verbs are and how you can use them in your writing.
What is a pronoun?
Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence, examples are 'him', 'her' and 'them'.
What are adjectives?
Find out what adjectives are and how they are used in your writing in this Year 3 and 4 guide.
What is an adverb?
An adverb tells you how something happens, like quickly and slowly.
What is a passive verb?
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.
What are modal verbs?
Find out how modal verbs can be used in your writing.
What is a preposition?
A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else, like "after","before" or "on".
Conjunctions including 'because'
Learn how to write sentences that include the word 'because'.
Using conjunctions to build sentences
Practise using conjunctions and, but, for, or, while, until, before, after, because in order to extend sentences.
What is an expanded noun phrase?
Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun, so the reader will have more information.