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The Grammar Handbook is an essential reference for English grammar, punctuation and usage and provides students the answers to everyday English usage questions.
"The Primary Grammar Handbook, third edition, is an essential reference book to English grammar, punctuation and usage. It provides primary students, their parents and teachers with an accessible guide to basic grammatical concepts and correct spoken and written English. The handbook contains sections on all levels of traditional grammar and demonstrates the function of grammar in a broad range of text types, providing a comprehensive handbook of the language system and how it works. This new edition builds on the strengths of the previous edition and incorporates the most recent developments in English syllabus documents." -back cover.
The Grammar 4 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 3 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 8+. It provides: * Practical advice and ideas for teaching * Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher *Continues to introduce new grammar elements * 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons * 36 spelling lessons * Revision and extension of The Grammar 3 Handbook * Photocopiable activities * Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: * Nouns acting as concrete/ abstract/possessives * The present participle as an adjective * Onomatopoeia * Agreements ?* Clauses/independent clauses ?* Hyphens?* Sentence writing - statements and questions, compound sentences?* Parsing verbs * Infinitives* Antonyms and Synonyms* Homophones
For use the year after the Grammar Handbook 1. Photocopiable resource for consolidation and introduction of further grammar and punctuation elements.
The Grammar 3 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 2 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 7+. It provides: * Practical advice and ideas for teaching * Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher*Continues to introduce new grammar elements* 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons* 36 spelling lessons* Revision and extension of The Grammar 2 Handbook* Photocopiable activities* Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: * Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1 & 2 Handbooks * New spelling patters - tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/* Suffixes -'less', 'able' and 'ful'.* Proper adjectives* Nouns acting as adjectives* Collective nouns.* Pronouns - possessive/subjective and object* The present particle and the continuous tenses* Paragraphs* Subject and object in a sentence* Conjunctions* Questions and exclamations in speech
A comprehensive follow-on for the year after The Grammar Handbook 1. Introduces new elements of grammar, spelling, dictionary skills and improves vocabulary and comprehension.
