Clear Writing: Language and Grammar provides students in Years 7-10 with an excellent written foundation.
ISBN: 978-0-9924942-2-3: $21.95
Matches criteria in the Australian Curriculum
CHAPTER 1 enables students to confidently identify parts of speech. (Different types of nouns, pronouns and verbs; the difference between adverbs and adjectives; the function of prepositions and conjunctions.)
CHAPTER 2 helps students distinguish between different types of phrases and clauses, sentence types and sentence structures. They will learn to identify subject-object and verb-object constructions and the link between clauses and types of conjunctions.
CHAPTER 3 builds upon the knowledge of phrases and clauses to outline the rules relating to punctuation. It covers the differences between a comma, semicolon and colon; focuses on the use of apostrophes and speech marks and encourages students to quote correctly and use embedded clauses for stylistic purposes.
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- See Sample Pages and the corresponding Suggested Responses
- See Suggested Responses for Grammar Workbook (84 Exercises: $7.00 PDF version)
- See examples from workbook: “Adjectives enliven your writing” and Revision Tasks.
- Each chapter has extension activities/online support. (See Grammar Support) See sample pages of our “Writing Better Sentences”.
The English Works Pack ($95): Includes:
- a copy of each of the six workbooks (Analyse! Not Summarise: The Language of Analysis) Techniques of Persuasion, The Language of Persuasion: become an expert; Arguments and Persuasive Language: an essay-writing guide; Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques and Clear Writing: language and grammar).
See Slideshow: How a knowledge of grammar can help