Year 6 - Vocabulary, Grammar & Punctuation
Outcomes
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Word
The difference between vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, find out - discover; ask for - request; go in - enter] How words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms [for example, big, large, little].Examples
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Sentence
Use of the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence [for example, I broke the window in the greenhouse versus The window in the greenhouse was broken (by me)]. The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, the use of question tags: He's your friend, isn't he?, or the use of subjunctive forms such as If I were or Were they to come in some very formal writing and speech]Examples
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Terminology for Pupils
Subject, object Active, passive Synonym, antonym Ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet pointsPlay Activities 114Examples