Grammar

Discover how to spot the present perfect tense and when to use it in your writing.

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".

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.