English Verb Tenses. Grammar. Intro I'm worried that some Year 6 teachers are a bit anxious about the forthcoming grammar test. Part of this worry is that they themselves received little or no education in grammar and as a consequence feel harassed by what's coming. As I've said, I disagree with what's coming and offer the following comments as a way of trying to alleviate some of the stress. It's meant as a general framework for 'grammar'. Grammar involves several different ways of describing language. The forthcoming grammar test will ask you to teach grammar from two different perspectives. To understand this I'll make an analogy: think of chain. The a) approach looks at separate parts (the links of a chain) and tries to find names for each kind of link. The b) approach tries to describe how and why one kind of link fits together with another link.
Now let's suppose that there are some strange things about this chain. Now, let's look closely at how the coloured links hook up. The Links (or the parts of the chain) Michael Rosen. Metaphors - definitions, lists and examples of metaphors. Visual Dictionary Online. The Free Dictionary. Livemocha. 5 Minute English - ESL Lessons - Helping you learn English. Sentence first | An Irishman's blog about the English language.