Thursday, January 10, 2013

English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Revision

Hello,

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
Additional information
Reference
Grammatical terms/word classes


Nouns
Common, proper, collective, concrete, countable, uncountable abstract and noun formation
sg/ga1.1
Verbs
Transitive, intransitive, regular , irregular and modal
sg/ga1.2
Adjectives
sg/ga1.3
Connectives
Time,reason,consequence,purpose,condition,contrast
sg/ga1.4
Pronouns
Personal, possessive,reflexive,emphatic,interrogative, demonstrative and relative
sg/ga1.5
Adverbs


Prepositions


Articles


Features of sentences


Declarative/statement

sg/ga2.1
Interrogative
Negative, alternative, rhetorical, emphatic and questions tags
sg/ga2.2
Imperative
Affirmative, negative and emphatic
sg/ga2.3
Clauses

sg/ga3.1
Phrases

sg/ga3.2
Subordinating connectives

sg/ga3.3
Standard English


Tense agreement


Subject-verb agreement


Double negatives


Use of ‘I’ and ‘me’


Formal/Informal


Impersonal constructions


Passive constructions/voice
A passive voice expresses an action performed upon the subject:   The window was broken by Jane.

Active voice
An active voice expresses and action performed by the subject:  Jane broke the window.

Contractions


Vocabulary


Word meaning


Vocabulary in context


Concision and precision


Synonyms


Antonyms


Word groups/families


Prefixes


Suffixes


Singular and plural


Punctuation


Capital letters


Full stops
To end all sentences except questions and exclamations. After abbreviations for titles, names and degrees (they are often omitted in modern style)

Questions marks
Used to end a direct questions:  Who are you?

Exclamation marks
Used after exclamations showing grief, joy, surprise etc.

Commas in lists

comma game
pg/as.6
Commas to mark phrases or clauses


Inverted commas


Apostrophes
Possession or to show missing letters

Brackets


Ellipses


Colons


Semi-colons



BT. Grammar Study Guide.2013


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