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Grammar and punctuation terminology in the 2014 English National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2

The table below shows the areas of grammar and punctuation covered in the new curriculum and details the terminology which will be introduced to children in each year group.  Once your child has been taught a new term, they should be encouraged to use it in their learning from that point on, so that it becomes part of the normal vocabulary they use to discuss writing.

Clicking on the links contained along the Area of grammar title row will take you to information about each of the grammar and punctuation features.  This part of the blog is under construction.

Area of grammar	Constructing sentences (single and multi-clause sentences)	Sentence types	Nouns and noun phrases	Adverbs and adverbial phrases	Verbs and verb phrases	Punctuation
Terminology introduced in Y1	word, sentence, capital letter, full stop		singular, plural			letter capital letter punctuation full stop question mark exclamation mark
Terminology introduced in Y2		statement, question, exclamation, command	noun, noun phrase, compound, adjective, suffix	adverb, suffix	verb, tense (past, present) present progressive, past progressive	comma apostrophe (for missing letters and singular possession)
Terminology introduced in Y3	conjunction, clause, subordinate clause		prefix, consonant, vowel preposition word family	preposition word family	present perfect past perfect, word family	inverted commas (or speech marks), direct speech
Terminology introduced in Y4			determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun	adverbial		apostrophes (for plural possession)
Terminology introduced in Y5			relative pronoun, relative clause		modal verb	parenthesis, brackets, dashes, ambiguity
Terminology introduced in Y6			subject, object, synonym, antonym		active, passive, subjunctive	ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points