Grammar

Homophones are groups of words which sound the same when you say them but have different spellings and meanings.

Working out whether to use to, too or two can be tricky. Find out when to use each of these words.

Find out how to use the homophones their, they’re and there.

Discover how you can change the meaning of a word by adding a prefix.

Find out how to add suffixes to the end of words to change their meaning.

Discover how you can add the suffix -ly to a word to change its meaning.

Find out what happens when you add the suffix -ation to the end of a word.

Find out what happens when you add the suffix -ous to the end of a word.

Find out how listening to the stress of the final syllable can help when adding suffixes to words.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

Learn about simple, compound and complex sentences, and writing in more detail.