Grammar, punctuation and teaching relevant to students of KS3, KS4 and KS5 in England and Wales
Adjectives are important words in language because an adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun, providing more detail about it. A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea such as a dog,…
Reflexive verbs are those where the action reflects back on the subject, using reflexive pronouns such as myself or yourself. Ergative verbs are those that exhibit a unique flexibility in allowing the subject of an intransitive sentence to be the…
Words, the building blocks of language, are organised into various categories known as parts of speech or word classes. These classifications serve to facilitate the understanding of sentence structure and linguistic principles. Parts of speech Parts of speech are categories…
There are three main types of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions. Conjunctions are a part of speech or word class often described as ‘joining words’, because many conjunctions, such as ‘but’ and ‘and’, join words or clauses…
The word ‘that’ can cause much confusion to English language learners. In language, words are divided into word classes, or what are called ‘Parts of Speech’, and these word classes define the use of a word in a sentence. However,…
This post examines the key aspects of verb usage. Verbs are a class of word that expresses an action. There are various aspects of verb usage that students of English need to learn, and these include sentence structure, subject-verb agreement,…
Nouns, also known as naming words, are essentially the building blocks of a language. They are the words that we give things, the names of the objects, animals, people, places and concepts that enable us to express our reality in…
The full stop is the small dot that appears at the end of a sentence written in certain scripts such as the Roman alphabet, which is used for the majority of Western languages. Likenesses of a full stop, also called…
Subject-verb agreement is a fundamental grammatical concept that refers to the proper matching of the subject of a sentence with the appropriate verb form. This post is a comprehensive and clear guide to subject-verb agreement. A singular subject should take…
The National Curriculum serves as a comprehensive guide for educators in England and, at secondary level, Wales. This means students from Key Stage 3 (KS3), years 7 to 9; KS4, years 10 and 11 (GCSE); and KS5, years 12 and…