Year Word structure Sentence structure Text structure Punctuation Terminology for pupils 6 The difference between Use of the passive voice to Linking ideas across Use of the semi-colon, colon active and passive voice, [168] vocabulary typical of informal affect the presentation of paragraphs using a wider and dash to indicate a subject and object, hyphen, speech and vocabulary information in a sentence range of cohesive devices: stronger subdivision of a synonym, colon, semi-colon, appropriate for formal (e.g. I broke the window in semantic cohesion (e.g. sentence than a comma bullet points speech and writing (e.g. said the greenhouse versus The repetition of a word or versus reported, alleged, or window in the greenhouse phrase), grammatical Punctuation of bullet points claimed in formal speech or was broken) connections (e.g. the use of to list information writing) adverbials such as on the Expanded to or How hyphens can be used to noun phrases other hand, in contrast, as convey complicated a consequence), and elision avoid ambiguity (e.g. man information concisely (e.g. eating shark versus man- Layout devices, such as eating shark, or recover the boy that jumped over the fence is over there, or the headings, sub-headings, versus re-cover) fact that it was raining meant columns, bullets, or tables, to the end of sports day) structure text The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing (such as the use of question tags, e.g. or He’s your friend, isn’t he?, the use of the subjunctive in some very formal writing and speech)
Year Word structure Sentence structure Text structure Punctuation Terminology for pupils 6 The difference between Use of the passive voice to Linking ideas across Use of the semi-colon, colon active and passive voice, [168] vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing (e.g. said versus reported, alleged, or claimed in formal speech or writing) affect the presentation of information in a sentence (e.g. I broke the window in the greenhouse versus The window in the greenhouse was broken) Expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. the boy that jumped over the fence is over there, or the fact that it was raining meant the end of sports day) paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: semantic cohesion (e.g. repetition of a word or phrase), grammatical connections (e.g. the use of adverbials such as on the other hand, in contrast, or as a consequence), and elision Layout devices, such as headings, sub-headings, columns, bullets, or tables, to structure text and dash to indicate a stronger subdivision of a sentence than a comma Punctuation of bullet points to list information How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity (e.g. man eating shark versus man- eating shark, or recover versus re-cover) subject and object, hyphen, synonym, colon, semi-colon, bullet points The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing (such as the use of question tags, e.g. He’s your friend, isn’t he?, or the use of the subjunctive in some very formal writing and speech)
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