Grammar Essentials for age 7

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Nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositional words, connectives, pronouns Nouns-  special names begin with capital letters Describing words (make sentences more interesting) More adjectives More (-er) most (-est) Verbs regular  past tense (-ed) Use past tense consistently Did/ done (has), catch /caught , give/ gave Adverb (-ly) Plurals (s, es) more than one Articles a and an Use of article an with words beginning with silent h in an hour Owning words (pronouns) my, his, her, its, yours Opposite words Person verb agreement (I run, you run, he runs, they run) Noun / pronoun/ verb agreement ( I ma, they are, we are, he is) Comparative nouns e.g. long, longer, longest Connectives ‘and’ and ‘but’  to join two simple sentences Collective nouns –e.g.  a team of players Teach form simple and compound sentences. A simple sentence has one verb Compound sentences are two or more simple sentences joined together Compound sentences are joined by a conjunction such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’ etc e.g. Harry fell down,  broke his wrist and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

Capital letter for names Capital letter for start of  a sentence Capital letter for personal pronoun I Capital letter for personal titles (Mr, Mrs) Use full stop for ending sentences Use question marks for questions words – who, when, how, what, where, which Use comma when we take a breath Use comma in a list Use of exclamation mark to: Mark surprise, humour, joy Show fear, anger, pain, danger, giving an order or shouting identify speech marks in reading Shortening words using full stops or the high comma ‘ Punctuation to master: . ? ! ,  “  “