Writing (Punctuation and Grammar)

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

20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong | LitReactor - StumbleUpon I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery. As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes. But experience has also taught me that readers, for better or worse, will approach your work with a jaundiced eye and an itch to judge. Who and Whom This one opens a big can of worms. Which and That This is one of the most common mistakes out there, and understandably so. Lay and Lie This is the crown jewel of all grammatical errors. Moot

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. An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun. 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. Some other sentences can be combined into a sentence using adjective clauses in a variety of ways, and they are all correct. The church is old. The church where my grandparents were married is old.