Adjective Clauses. At a certain point in your writing in English, you should be able to identify every sentence you write as simple, compound, or complex. Two additional structures, adjective clauses and appositives, will give you a much greater sentence variety within which to accomplish your writing objectives. This page contains a small amount of information about adjective clauses along with just ten very difficult exercises. First, we will define what adjective clauses are and how they work. An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun. It is possible to combine the following two sentences to form one sentence containing an adjective clause: The children are going to visit the museum. The children who are on the bus are going to visit the museum. | adjective clause | In the sentence above, there are two other ways to write the sentence correctly using the second sentence as the adjective clause.
The children that are on the bus are going to visit the museum. The church is old. 1. Punctuation Self-Test. OWL Writing Exercises. On Punctuation. Punctuation Game for Kids - Fun Grammar Practice Exercise Activity. Punctuation marks exercise. There! Their! Literacy, Key Stage 2. Sentence Detectives A useful site for teaching basic punctuation marks such as question marks, exclamation marks and full stops.
Includes a download option. Types of Sentence An interactive activity with the character Ed the owl. Skillswise Sentence Grammar Choose from different types of text such as a letter, an email and story and then punctuate with full-stops and add capital letters where needed Contraction Match A drag and drop activity on the use of apostrophes in contractions. Apostrophes for Contraction and Possession Activities which demonstrate the use of the apostrophe. Lexis the Magician A delightful interactive tutorial on compound words and apostrophes (contractions) with two cartoon characters Lexis the Magician and his friend Grizzle.
Don't Use Said A great teaching resource for looking at alternatives to the word 'said' in written work. Apostrophes for Possession. Questions. Sentence Level: Basic Punctuation. Writing (Punctuation and Grammar) Plants Punctuation - Can your pupils add the correct punctuation to these sentences? Contributed by Carol Vincent. Punctuation Posters - A set of 11 brilliant posters (in PDF), outlining the uses of different types of punctuation. Contributed by Neil Hedworth. Tarzan Punctuation - A SMART Notebook file, which children can read and then devise actions to represent each missing punctuation mark. Contributed by Zoe Mitchell. Fill in the Punctuation - Children need to put the correct punctuation into a piece of text (includes worksheet) Punctuation Sheets - A set of useful reminders (in PDF) for children to think about when writing stories.
Contributed by Sharon Whitchurch. Capital Letters / Full Stops: Traffic Lights - Use this very simple methods to reinforce when capital letters and full stops are needed.