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Year 5 Objectives Grammar

Year 5 Sentence Structure Text Structure Punctuation Terminology
Word Structure

Converting nouns or Relative clauses Devices to build Brackets, dashes or relative clause, modal
adjectives into verbs beginning with who, cohesion within a commas to indicate verb, relative pronoun,
using suffixes (e.g. –ate; which, where, why, paragraph (e.g. then, parenthesis parenthesis, bracket,
–ise; –ify) or whose or an omitted after that, this, firstly) dash, cohesion,
relative pronoun. Use of commas to clarify ambiguity
Verb prefixes (e.g. dis–, Linking ideas across meaning or avoid
de–, mis–, over– and re–) Indicating degrees of paragraphs using ambiguity
possibility using modal adverbials of time (e.g.
verbs (e.g. might, later), place (e.g.
should, will, must) or nearby) and number
adverbs (e.g. perhaps, (e.g. secondly) or tense
surely) choices (For example,
He had seen her
before.)

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