Verb Tenses: Past, Present, Future and Present Perfect
Shelly the turtle swims, swam, will swim and has swum. Learn how the tense of a verb shows when something happens, use time clues like "yesterday" to choose the right tense, then pick the present perfect form yourself. Plus: keep the same tense all the way through your writing.
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1:31Word Classes: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
In "The happy frog jumped quickly", every word has a job. Learn nouns (naming words), verbs (doing words), adjectives (describe nouns) and adverbs (describe verbs, often ending in -ly). Then find the adjective and adverb in "The tiny mouse squeaked loudly".
1:36Pronouns: Replacing Nouns Clearly
Pronouns such as he, she, it, we and they stand in for nouns. Rosie the rabbit rewrites "Rosie dropped Rosie’s carrot, so Rosie picked the carrot up" as "Rosie dropped her carrot, so she picked it up". Then choose the right pronoun yourself, and learn how to keep it clear who a pronoun means.
1:29Prepositions: Words for Where and When
Prepositions tell us where or when something is. Pip the panda hides on, under and beside a box to show prepositions of place, then learns prepositions of time such as before, during and after. Choose the right preposition for "We had lunch ___ the football match" yourself.