definition of an abbreviation; types of abbreviations: acronyms, initialisms, shortening and contraction; punctuation in abbreviations and a list of common abbreviations
definition of active voice and passive voice; choosing active voice; changing passive voice to active voice; choosing passive voice; changing active voice to passive voice
definition of an adjective; importance of adjectives; correct use of adjectives; recognising adjectives by the use of suffixes; examples of adjectives with suffixes; placement of adjectives; order of multiple adjectives; adjectives and degrees of comparison
definition of an adverb; importance of adjectives; correct use of adverbs; recognising adverbs; types of adverbs; sentence modifiers; adverbs and degrees of comparison
a list of animal parents and their young or offspring
a list of animals and the sounds they make
definition of an antonym; forms of antonyms; antonyms with prefixes; antonyms with suffixes; types of antonyms: complementary antonyms, rational antonyms and graded antonyms; 7-page list of commonly used antonyms
definition of an apostrophe; purpose of the apostrophe: indicate a noun’s possession, indicate omission of letters through contraction and indicate the plural form of individual letters
definition of a clauses; types of clauses: main (independent) clauses, subordinate (dependent) clauses, conditional clauses, relative clauses, noun clauses
definition of collective nouns; 6 pages of commonly used collective nouns; including collective nouns relating to people, collective nouns relating to animals and collective nouns relating to things
8-page study guide to comprehension and analysing skills that teaches learners how to answer comprehension tests and listening tests; the importance of comprehension skills; comprehension skillsets: reading skills, listening skills, answering skills and types of questions
definition of concord; the agreement between the subject and verb in a sentence; the 15 rules of concord individually explained with examples
definition of a conjunction; types of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions; including examples of each type of conjunction
definition of a contraction; list of common contractions with the words be, will, would, have, had, would, should, could and odd words
degrees of comparison; positive degree, comparative degree and superlative degree; adjectives and degrees of comparison; adjectives of one syllable, adjectives of two syllables, adjectives of three or more syllables; irregular adjectives
definition of a diminutive; list of diminutives
definition of figure of speech; the thirteen types of figures of speech each explained with definitions and examples; including alliteration, anaphora, assonance, euphemism, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, simile, synecdoche and understatement
definition of gender; list of the masculine and feminine words for gender relating to people; list of the masculine and feminine words relating to animals and creatures
definition of a hom*onym and the difference between hom*onyms and hom*ophones; list of hom*onym examples explaining the different words
definition of a hom*ophone; hom*onyms vs hom*ophones; list of hom*ophone examples explaining the difference between the hom*ophones
definition of houses and homes; list of homes indicating what kind of animal or person lives in the particular home
the 5 rules for joining sentences: joining independent clauses, joining sentences about the same subject, transition words, transition punctuation, tenses
levels of language; emotive language including propaganda, denotation and connotation, subjectivity and objectivity, sensationalism, bias/prejudice and fact and opinion; formal language; informal language including politically correct language, colloquialism, slang and jargon
long vowel sounds; the 3 vowel sound groups: double vowel sounds, vowel digraphs and thesilent e
list of names of places
definition of a noun; the 5 types of nouns: common nouns, proper nouns, pronouns, compound nouns and possessive nouns, including examples of each type of noun; the 5 types of common nouns: countable nouns, uncountable nouns, collective nouns, concrete nouns, abstract nouns and gerunds
definition of parts of speech; the 8 parts of speech categories: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, article; examples of each part of speech category; guidelines to categorising sentences into parts of speech
definition of a phrase; the 10 types of phrases with examples: noun phrase, verb phrase, gerund phrase, infinite phrase, appositive phrases, participial phrases, prepositional phrases, absolute phrases, adjectival phrases and adverbial phrases;
a 71-page document that lists phrases and their definitions alphabetically
definition of a plural; the rules of plurals
definition of a prefix; a list of common prefixes, their meanings, examples and how it is used in a sentence; definition of a suffix; a list of common suffixes, their meanings, examples and how it is used in a sentence
definition of a preposition; the 5 rules of prepositions
definition of a pronoun; types of pronouns and examples: personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns, emphatic pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, exclamatory pronouns, relative pronouns, pronouns of number and pronouns of amount
definition of punctuation; the 17 elements of punctuation with examples: full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, ellipsis, colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, double quotation mark, single quotation mark, parentheses, brackets, braces, slash, capital letters, italics/underlining/boldface
definition of sentence; the 4 types of sentences with examples: statement sentence, question sentence, exclamation sentence and command sentence
definition of synonyms; 19-page list of synonyms listed alphabetically
definition of a tense; the basic verb tenses explained: present tense, past tense and future tense; explanation and examples of the simple present tense, simple past tense, simple future tense, present continuous tense, past continuous tense, future continuous tense, present perfect tense, past perfect tense, future perfect tense, present perfect continuous tense, past perfect continuous tense, future perfect continuous tense; a verb tenses chart summarises the verb tenses in each category
the doubling rule; short vowel sound and long vowel sound
definition of a verb; types of verbs: regular verbs and irregular verbs; 3-page list of irregular verb examples; strong verbs with a list of examples
