by melaniewp | Jul 10, 2013 | Full Stops, Punctuation
When should you use a full stop in the middle of a sentence? When you’ve cut a word short and the last letter remaining is not the original one. For example:January > Jan. (the y is cut off)et cetera > etc. (the a is cut off)id est (Lat....
by melaniewp | Jul 3, 2013 | Apostrophes, Capital Letters, Colon, Full Stops, Punctuation, Punctuation Exercises
Oh no! The Headmaster at Cox Academy for the Criminally Gifted is trying to email parents but has forgotten how to use punctuation! Can you help him?idear mr and mrs bigginsi regret to inform you that some boys have set fire to their form tutors hair here at cox...
by melaniewp | Apr 9, 2013 | Commas, Commas Exercises, Connectives, Full Stops, Full Stops Exercises, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation Exercises, Subordinate conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions turn a sentence: Cats make me sneeze. into a non-sentence: it’s like magic!When cats make me sneeze.orBecause cats make me sneeze.orIf cats make me sneeze.orAs long as cats make me sneeze.orAlthough cats...
by melaniewp | Apr 7, 2013 | Capital Letters, Commas, Complex Sentences, Full Stops, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation, Punctuation Exercises, Simple Sentences
Here are some fun sentences to teach the correct use of full stops – and capital letters.For What Age? 8-16Difficulty: increases gradually. If the first section looks stupidly easy (to them), skip to something that just looks ‘fairly easy’...
by melaniewp | Apr 6, 2013 | Commas, Full Stops, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation
ATeacherWrites.com + Get all Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Resources hereTeachers will usually correct some punctuation. But they don’t have time to pick out the billion or so errors that they will encounter in the average week. This one’s down to...
by melaniewp | Apr 5, 2013 | Commas, Complex Sentences, Full Stops, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Main Clauses, Punctuation, Simple Sentences, Sub-Clauses
Full stops are used at the end of a sentence. Here are some examples:1. The dog chased the ball. [simple sentence]2. The dog chased the ball across the park. [simple sentence] 3. Quickly, with its tongue hanging out, the dog chased the ball across the park and...
