Grammar Building Block year 4 SB This Study Guide Will help you to recall key information and ideas and build your understanding about the science topics thatyou have been learning in Stage 6. It will help you to make sure that what you learn stays in your memonry for a long time.
Building Blocks: Grammar, Punctuation and Handwriting Year Student Book Hannah Hirst-Dunton Published by Pearson Education Limited, 80 Strand, London, WC2R ORL www.pearsonglobalschools.com Text © Pearson Education Limited 2020 Designed by Pearson Education Limited 2020 Typeset by PDQ Digital Media Solutions Ltd Project managed by Just Content Ltd Produced by Just Content Ltd and Danielle Whisker Edited by Carole Sunderland and Jane Morgan Original illustrations © Pearson Education Limited 2020 Illustrated by PDQ Digital Media Solutions Ltd Cover design © Pearson Education Limited 2020 The right of Hannah Hirst-Dunton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2020 222120 10987654321 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 4978 | 292 37393 Copyright notice All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 5th Floor, Shackleton House, Battle Bridge Lane, London, SEI 2HX (www.cla.co.uk) Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission should be addressed to the publisher Printed in Slovakia by Neografia CONTENTS Introduction Unit Further conjunctions Lesson Revisiting conjunctions Lesson Understanding ‘or’ and ‘so’ Lesson Using ‘or’ and ‘so’ Lesson Understanding clauses Unit Checkpoints Unit Irregular verbs Lesson Understanding ‘be’ and ‘have’ Lesson Understanding other irregular verbs Lesson Writing with irregular verbs Lesson Ensuring verb agreement Unit Checkpoints Unit Adverbials Lesson Understanding adverbs ‘Lesson Adding adverbs of time and manner Lesson Identifying adverbial phrases Lesson Writing with adverbials Unit Checkpoints Unit Demonstratives Lesson Understanding demonstrative determiners Lesson Using demonstrative determiners Lesson Understanding demonstrative pronouns Lesson Using demonstrative pronouns Unit Checkpoints Unit Possession 42 Lesson Understanding singular possessive nouns 42 Lesson Using singular possessive nouns 44 Lesson Identifying possessive pronouns 46 Lesson Understanding possessive determiners 48 Lesson Using possessive determiners 50 Lesson Understanding independent possessive pronouns 52 Lesson Using independent possessive pronouns 54 Lesson Selecting possessive pronouns 56 Unit Checkpoints 58 Unit Punctuation 60 Lesson Revising sentence punctuation 60 Lesson Revising lists 62 Lesson Revising direct speech 64 Lesson Punctuating speech 66 Unit Checkpoints 68 Handwriting 70 Glossary 86 Welcome to Building Blocks Learning the rules of Standard English and formal grammar may seem a bit like learning a different language However, it is very useful — it can help you to express yourself with many different people in many different places We hope you will find this Student Book useful as you develop your grammar and punctuation skills It is divided into units, and each unit is divided into lessons The three activities you will find in each lesson focus on practising key skills and building up your understanding The ‘Grammar guides’ in each lesson point out the key learning points for you At the end of each lesson, the checkpoints offer you a quick and easy way to show how confident you feel about the skills you’ve been taught ¬- nh There are three activities in every lesson Activity Lesson is usually very short Activity | Activities and will take | LH J ASSASSIN Each ‘Grammar guide’ clearly highlights the key Mum chopped the potato, a carrot and an onion : © Use ‘the’ when you talk about a particular thing : © Use ‘a’ or ‘an’ when you talk about any thing : © Use ‘an’ before words beginning with ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘’, 1bsSseseseâeeâeeseeeeeeeeeooeooeeeoeâeoâ đ%ââââ5d696669666666666666666s666 @ Elephants are the biggest animals we saw simple response, like ticking a box or writing one word Other activities require you @ Amrit climbed the tree in the forest or even paragraphs : °° { Tick the sentences that use ‘the’, ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly ] Some activities need a to write phrases, sentences : © Use ‘a’ before words beginning with any other letter (See ee ee 22^222112110162