a group of words that contains a verb and does not make complete sense

a type of subordinate clause that starts with a subordinating conjunction

a type of subordinate clause that starts with a relative pronoun

a type of subordinate clause that starts with a verb in the progressive tense

a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause

Adverbial, relative and non-finite complex sentences revision

English

In this unit, pupils revise all the grammar and punctuation learnt from Year 1 - Year 6.

In 'Punctuation', pupils learnt how to use the colon and the semi-colon. In this unit, pupils will revise all the grammar and punctuation learnt from Year 1 - Year 6. 

Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons

Which of the following are subordinate clauses?

Which words in this complex sentence are subordinating conjunctions? 'When Miss O'Neill arrived, we cheered because she had been poorly for days.'

Before we had time to rest it had begun. 

It had begun before we had time to rest. 

When the movie started we all fell silent. 

We all fell silent when the movie started. 

Which of these complex sentences need a comma after a fronted adverbial clause?

What kind of word starts a relative clause? 

The house where I grew up is a ruin now. 

We all chuckled when Jacob told his story. 

The day when Jacob told his story was one of the best of the year. 

When we arrived, we went straight to our dormitories. 

Which of these sentences contain a relative clause? 

Gobbling down our food, we were desperate to go outside. 

She looked at me sadly, hoping it wasn't true.

She was hoping to come, but she wasn't able to. 

Which of these sentences contain a non-finite (-ing clause)?

Which sentence has all the correct capital letters? 

Which of the following are co-ordinating conjunctions?

Tick the sentences which are exclamations. 

Alex wants to rewrite this statement as a question. Which is the correct version? 'She was here a minute ago.'

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