English Basics 1: Practice And Revision

Description: Cover the 'mechanics' of English language. Provides an introduction to the basic principles of the English language for 9-11 year-olds. Also suitable as a revision book for older children.



Contents: Unit 1. Starting and finishing a sentence; Unit 2. Showing what someone else has said; Unit 3. Capital letters; Unit 4. Using the comma; Unit 5. Being careful with the comma; Unit 6. What is the plural of 'knife'?; Unit 7. What is the plural of 'potato'?; Unit 8. Combing words with an apostrophe; Unit 9. Adding -'s to a noun; Unit 10. Whose, its, theirs...; Unit 11. Adding -'s to a verb; Unit 12. Adding -ing to a verb; Unit 13. Adding -ed to a verb; Unit 14. Irregular verbs 1; Unit 15 Irregular verbs 2; Unit 16. Adjectives; Unit 17. Adjectives ending in -ing/-ed; Unit 18. Making adjectives negative; Unit 19. Adding -er/-est to an adjective; Unit 20. Adverbs ending in -ly; Unit 21. Some tricky nouns; Unit 22. Who/which/whose/whom; Unit 23. Spoken and written English 1; Unit 24. Spoken and written English 2; Unit 25. Of/off, into, out of...; Unit 26. Silent letters; Unit 27. Words that sound alike; Unit 28. Some confusing words; Unit 29. Look, lock, lack, lake...; Unit 30. Is it 'freind' or 'friend'?