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To help you with your examination revision, I am compiling some reference material for you. This table, which is 'under construction', contains the elements of grammar, punctuation and spelling that you will be tested on at the end of the academic year.
To help you with your examination revision, I am compiling some reference material for you. This table, which is 'under construction', contains the elements of grammar, punctuation and spelling that you will be tested on at the end of the academic year.
Programme of Study
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Additional information
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Reference
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Grammatical terms/word classes
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Nouns
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Common, proper, collective, concrete, countable, uncountable abstract and noun formation
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sg/ga1.1
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Verbs
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Transitive, intransitive, regular , irregular and modal
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sg/ga1.2
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Adjectives
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sg/ga1.3
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Connectives
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Time,reason,consequence,purpose,condition,contrast
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sg/ga1.4
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Pronouns
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Personal, possessive,reflexive,emphatic,interrogative, demonstrative and relative
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sg/ga1.5
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Adverbs
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Prepositions
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Articles
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Features of sentences
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Declarative/statement
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sg/ga2.1
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Interrogative
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Negative, alternative, rhetorical, emphatic and questions tags
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sg/ga2.2
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Imperative
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Affirmative, negative and emphatic
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sg/ga2.3
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Clauses
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sg/ga3.1
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Phrases
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sg/ga3.2
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Subordinating connectives
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sg/ga3.3
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Standard English
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Tense agreement
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Subject-verb agreement
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Double negatives
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Use of ‘I’ and ‘me’
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Formal/Informal
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Impersonal constructions
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Passive constructions/voice
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A passive voice expresses an action performed upon the subject: The window was broken by Jane.
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Active voice
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An active voice expresses and action performed by the subject: Jane broke the window.
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Contractions
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Vocabulary
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Word meaning
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Vocabulary in context
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Concision and precision
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Synonyms
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Antonyms
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Word groups/families
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Prefixes
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Suffixes
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Singular and plural
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Punctuation
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Capital letters
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Full stops
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To end all sentences except questions and exclamations. After abbreviations for titles, names and degrees (they are often omitted in modern style)
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Questions marks
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Used to end a direct questions: Who are you?
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Exclamation marks
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Used after exclamations showing grief, joy, surprise etc.
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Commas in lists
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comma game
pg/as.6 |
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Commas to mark phrases or clauses
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Inverted commas
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Apostrophes
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Possession or to show missing letters
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Brackets
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Ellipses
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Colons
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Semi-colons
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BT. Grammar Study Guide.2013
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