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English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns correctly (e.g., I/me/my, they/them/their, anyone/everything), replacing nouns to avoid repetition

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in sentences, maintaining subject-verb agreement (e.g., 'He hops' vs 'We hop')

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use determiners (articles a/an/the and demonstratives this/that/these/those) correctly before nouns

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the simple past tense, understanding how the present perfect indicates an action completed at an…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs correctly (e.g., sat, hid, told, went, came, ran), recognising that these do not follow the…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use and understand Year 3 grammatical terminology accurately when discussing reading and writing: preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use conjunctions (when, before, after, while, so, because), adverbs (then, next, soon, therefore) and prepositions (before, after, during, in, because of) to…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Choose pronouns for clarity and cohesion, avoiding ambiguity and repetition; use reflexive pronouns correctly (e.g., myself, ourselves, himself)

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Punctuate direct speech using inverted commas (speech marks), understanding that direct speech records the exact words spoken and must be enclosed in…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use adjectives and adverbs correctly, choosing between them depending on whether a noun or verb/adjective is being modified (e.g., 'She ran quickly' vs 'She is…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use irregular plural nouns (e.g., children, teeth, mice, geese) in addition to regular plurals, recognising that some nouns have irregular plural forms…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use the correct form of the indefinite article — 'a' before words beginning with a consonant sound and 'an' before words beginning with a vowel sound (e.g., a…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the simple past, present, and future verb tenses consistently in writing

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use Standard English verb inflections in place of non-standard local forms

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Know and use Year 4 grammar terminology including determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun, and adverbial

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use fronted adverbials to vary sentence openings and punctuate them with commas

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Distinguish between the plural -s suffix and the possessive -'s suffix in nouns

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Expand noun phrases with modifying adjectives, nouns, and preposition phrases to add detail

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, choosing correctly between them

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Ensure subject-verb agreement and pronoun-antecedent agreement within and across sentences

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Understand and use abstract nouns to name ideas, qualities, and states that cannot be perceived by the senses

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Understand and use modal verbs (can, may, must, might, shall, will, could, should, would) and modal adverbs (perhaps, surely, certainly) to indicate degrees of…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the progressive (continuous) verb tenses — past progressive (was walking), present progressive (am walking), and future progressive (will be…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (later, meanwhile, after a while), place (nearby, far away, beyond the wall), and number (secondly…