SATs-Style Grammar and Punctuation Test

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence”

Questions 3a and 3b, plus one error in the Section D paragraph.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun”

Question 4a asks pupils to underline a relative clause and 4b to add one. Section D has a wrong relative pronoun.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Learning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English Appendix 2”

Question 8 checks the subjunctive with "If I ( was / were ) the headteacher".

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity”

Question 5 asks what the hyphen in re-cover changes, and Section D includes the man eating tiger.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis”

Questions 2a and 2b ask for a pair of brackets and then a pair of dashes.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses”

Question 6b and the Section D paragraph each need a semi-colon between two clauses.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using a colon to introduce a list”

Question 6a puts a colon before the tent, sleeping bags and torch. Section D has one more.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.”

Questions 1 and 7 ask for terms such as adverb, determiner, preposition and conjunction.