Grammar & Punctuation
How sentences work.
23 adventures
Possessive Apostrophes: Fix the Signs in Apostrophe Town
Learn possessive apostrophes for one owner and many, like the girls’ coats and the children’s coats, by label…
Perfect Tense: Solve Time Cases with Tock the Owl
Learn the perfect tense, from has finished to had seen, and use it to show time, cause and links between para…
Verb Prefixes and Suffixes: Build Verbs in Gizmo's Workshop
Learn verb prefixes and suffixes: make verbs with –ate, –ise and –ify, change them with dis–, de–, mis–, over…
Determiners for Year 4: Ride the Determiner Express
Learn what determiners are, from a, an and the to my, some and every, by building word trains and spotting de…
Commas for Clarity: A Theatre Where Sentences Come Alive
Learn how commas make meaning clear and avoid ambiguity, by dragging commas into sentences and watching a the…
Colons, Semi-colons and Dashes: Bridge the Clause Islands
Learn how to use colons, semi-colons and dashes between clauses and in lists. Build punctuation bridges betwe…
Formal and Informal Language: Swap Hats with Mina
Learn formal and informal language: swap chatty words for formal ones, spot question tags, use If I were and…
The Subjunctive Form: Help Percy Speak Like Royalty
Learn the subjunctive form, from If I were you to Were they to come, by helping Percy the parrot turn chatty…
Word Classes: Sort Every Word with Dot the Robot
Learn the eight word classes, from nouns and verbs to determiners and conjunctions, by sorting word parcels i…
Formal Letter Writing: Quill's Post Office Adventure
Learn formal letter writing: pick a formal or informal tone, then help Quill the owl write letters of request…
Synonyms and Antonyms: A Word Islands Adventure
Learn synonyms and antonyms, from big and large to big and little, by sailing round Word Islands, building br…
Homophones: An Island Adventure with Echo the Parrot
Learn how to choose the right homophone, from heard or herd to practice or practise, by solving word puzzles…
Commas and Speech Punctuation: All Aboard the Comma Express
Learn commas and speech punctuation for Year 4: commas after fronted adverbials and inverted commas, by punct…
Linking Paragraphs: Build Bridges in Link Lagoon
Learn how linking paragraphs works: build cohesion with firstly, then, this, later, nearby and had by laying…
Subject, Verb and Object: A Sentence Theatre Show
Learn to find the subject, verb and object in a sentence, switch active to passive and make verbs agree, by d…
Hyphens and Bullet Points: Fix the Signs at Hyphen Harbour
Learn to use hyphens and bullet points correctly in Year 6 English: fix a man eating shark sign, tidy messy n…
Fronted Adverbials: All Aboard the Sentence Train
Learn how to start sentences with fronted adverbials that say when, where or how, then build sentence trains…
Relative Clauses: All Aboard the Relative Railway
Learn how relative clauses add information with who, which, where, when, whose and that by hooking word carri…
Expanded Noun Phrases: Hoot's Parcel Post Adventure
Learn how to build expanded noun phrases with adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases by writing exact parc…
Modal Verbs and Possibility: The Maybe-Meter Game
Learn how modal verbs like might, should, will and must, and adverbs like perhaps and surely, show possibilit…
Pronouns for Kids: Clear Writing Adventure in Pronoun Town
Learn when to use a noun or a pronoun, including possessive pronouns like mine and theirs, by fixing echoes,…
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