It may not be a term referred to in SATs, but knowing what a compound sentence is is still a useful grammatical lesson for your KS1 and KS2 pupils… The team at No More Marking examined nearly two ...

Get children adding a bit of grammatical spice to their sentences with these teaching tips and KS2 adverbials resources from Laura Dobson… Adverbials are the herbs and spices in a grammatical meal.

In this episode we will learn about sentence types: simple, complex, compound and compound-complex; and how to use them in your writing. Examiners will look at the range of sentence types you use in ...

When we write things down, it's important to keep things nice and clear, so it's easy to read. Sentences help us give an order, ask a question, state a fact, or express an emotion or idea. Words are ...

This makes the two ideas equal in the sentence - if you take away one part of it, you are left with a simple sentence again. These are very common when speaking and they are not difficult to ...