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Grades 6–8

by Rosemary Allen

Published by World Teachers Press®

GRAMMAR

SKILLS



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Contents ................................................................................... 4-5

Teachers Notes ..................................................................... 6-7

Using verb tenses:

the past perfect .......................................................................... 8More about the past perfect tense.................................9

Using punctuation:

review ........................................................................................... 10

Commas, dashes and parentheses ............................... 11

More about parenthetical expressions ...................... 12

Using words:

homophones ............................................................................. 13

Making use of words:

linking words .............................................................................14

Sentence structure ................................................................ 15

Sentences:

clauses ........................................................................................... 16

Sentences that have more than one clause ............ 17

Identifying the components of the clause ................ 18

Changing the order of sentences.................................. 19

Clause structure:

the subject (noun groups) ................................................20More about noun groups ..................................................21

Clause components:

nouns ............................................................................................. 22

Clause structure:

verbs (action part) .................................................................23

verbs ............................................................................................. 24

Words:

using interesting verbs ......................................................... 25Clause structure:

the object (situation part) ................................................. 26

Situation components:

adverbial phrases ....................................................................27

Making sense of verb tenses ............................................ 28

Contents

Using verb tenses in reports:

the present................................................................................. 29

Verb tenses:

the present tense ...................................................................30 Writing present (simple) sentences ............................ 31

Using adverbs with present (simple) tense ............. 32

Verb tenses:

the past tense ........................................................................... 33

Past tense in narratives – 1 .............................................. 34

Past tense in narratives – 2 .............................................. 35

Verb tenses:

talking about the future – 1 .............................................36

talking about the future – 2 .............................................37Direct and reported speech – 1 ...................................38

Direct and reported speech – 2 ...................................39



Direct and reported speech:

tense changes ........................................................................... 42

Making sense:

quotation marks ...................................................................... 43

Making sense of conditionals ........................................... 44

Conditionals:

the first condition ...................................................................45

the second condition ........................................................... 46

the third condition .................................................................47

Using conditionals in expositions .................................. 48

Describing characters:

using adjectives ........................................................................ 49

Description: tenses ............................................................................................ 50

metaphor ....................................................................................51

similes ............................................................................................ 52

Making sense of words:

idioms – 1 ...................................................................................53

idioms – 2 ...................................................................................54



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Contents

Grammar:

newspaper articles ................................................................. 55

Identifying:

point of view – 1 .................................................................... 56point of view – 2 .................................................................... 57

Using active and passive voice ........................................ 58

More about active voice .................................................... 59

More about passive voice ................................................. 60

Making nouns from other parts of speech .............. 61

Newspaper headlines .......................................................... 62

Exploring news articles ....................................................... 63

Verb tenses:

using verb tenses .................................................................... 64making sense of perfect tense ........................................ 65

the present continuous ....................................................... 66

past continuous – 1 .............................................................. 67

past continuous – 2 .............................................................. 68

future continuous – 1 .......................................................... 69

future continuous – 2 .......................................................... 70

Identifying verb tenses – 1 ................................................ 71

Identifying verb tenses – 2 ................................................ 72

Auxiliaries:identifying “helper” verbs ................................................... 73

Question marks:

using auxiliary verbs .............................................................. 74

Questioning activities ........................................................... 75

Writing Expositions:

shifts in tenses .......................................................................... 76

Sentences:

conjunctions .............................................................................. 77

Compound sentences and conjunctions .................. 78

Linking to make compound sentences ...................... 79

Types of pronouns ................................................................. 80

Relative and reflexive pronouns .................................... 81

Relative clauses and relative pronouns ...................... 82

Rules for relative clauses and relative pronouns .. 83

Relative clauses in science reports ............................... 84

Activities using relative pronouns and clauses ....... 85

Grammar through persuasive text – 1...................... 86

Grammar through persuasive text – 2...................... 87

Changing words into different parts of speech .... 88

Teachers Notes and Answers .................. 89 – 96



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Sentences: clauses

Sentences are like sandwiches; they too have a basic structure. Sentences are made up of clauses

(ideas, messages, thoughts). A clause is the basic structure that carries the message of the sentence. It

must contain a verb or a verb group. Sentences can be made up of a single clause (idea, message or

thought) or can be made by linking two or more clauses.

Find suitable verbs to complete these sentences.

(a) Jay football so he every night.

(b) Kate a letter to her friend.

(c) Brad the door as he outside.

Read this short narrative first and then we can look more closely at the clauses.

The Tree House

The children were on vacation for six weeks so they decided to build a tree house in the big, oldmulberry tree in the back field. Dad was recruited to help, timber was located, tools and ropes wereborrowed and nails were acquired from Dad’s collection in the shed. The children set to work happily on their project.

The tree house took three weeks to complete. It was solid and roomy. Dad said it was thesuperstar of the tree house world. However, there was still something missing and the childrenwere not completely happy with the result, so they went to Dad for some further advice.

“I know what the problem is,” he remarked, disappearing into the spare bedroom. He returneda few minutes later with two pieces of material.“You need curtains to make it feel like a home.” The children laughed. Dad was right. Now they

had a real home of their own, not just a tree house.

Most of the sentences in the narrative have more than one

clause (thought) in them. However, there are some sentences

that have only one clause.

The children set to work happily on their project.

The tree house took three weeks to complete.

Look at the text again. Find other examples of sentences with only one clause.3.

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