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Help and interactive guidance on simple sentence building from the BBC:

• Factsheet - rules and examples to help you build simple sentences.
• Game - Three games to test your skills. Spot sentences, make sentences and add full stops.
• Quiz - Three levels of quiz to test your sentencing skills.
• Five worksheets to print off to practise making more sentences.

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Help and interactive guidance on making longer sentences using joing words:

• Factsheet - rules and examples to help you build longer sentences.
• Game - Three games to test your longer sentence skills. Spot the sentences, make sentences and put a text into sentences.
• Quiz - Three levels of quiz to test your longer sentences.
• Make lots of longer sentences! Four worksheets to print out for more practice putting sentences together.

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Help and interactive guidance on using verbs with subjects in sentences:

• Factsheet - 'I walk', but 'she walks'. Rules and examples to help you understand verbs and subjects and how to get them right.
• Game - Will you uncover all the treasure in the verb-subject agreement 'Treasure Hunt'?
• Quiz - Test your skills at making verbs and subjects agree with this three level quiz.
• Print out these worksheets for more practice making verbs and subjects agree.

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Help and interactive guidance on using commas:

• Factsheet - Find out everything you need to know about commas on one printable sheet.
• Game - You are going to need to know your commas for those lists and reports.
• Quiz - Find out if you ready to use those commas.
• Worksheet - practise using commas by doing these exercises.

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Help and interactive guidance on using adverbs to say nore about the verbs you use:

• Printable factsheets with all you need to know on adverbs.
• Quiz - Are you ready to test your knowledge of adverbs?
• Practise adverbs with these printable worksheets.

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Help and interactive guidance on using describing words:

• Factsheet - Find out all you need to know about adjectives on a print-out-and-keep sheet.
• Game - You've got a new job on the Skillswise Echo. Can you make the adverts more interesting?
• Quiz - Test your knowledge of adjectives.
• Print off this worksheet and write your own personal advert.

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Help and interactive guidance on using the tenses correctly:

• Factsheet - 'Today I go, yesterday I went and tomorrow I will go'. Rules and examples to help you get the right tense in the right place.
• Game - Will you uncover all the treasure in the tenses 'Treasure Hunt'?
• Quiz - Three levels of quiz to test your tenses.
• Practise adverbs with these printable worksheets.

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Help and interactive guidance on using apostrophes correctly:

• What are apostrophes? Find out all you need to know about apostrophes in this factsheet.
• Game - Will you 'Beat The Clock' or find out 'Who Owns What'? Two games to help you practise apostrophes.
• Quiz - Are you ready to test your apostrophe knowledge?
• Workseet - Print out the newspaper exercises for practising apostrophes.

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Factsheets, games, quizes and worksheets to help you with your:

• Spelling.
• Syllables.
• Plurals.
• Prefixes and suffixes.
• Homophones and confusing words and more!

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Help and interactive guidance on summarising useful in note-making and assignments:

• Factsheet - Find out more about how to improve your summarising skills.
• Game - Go on a trip of a lifetime! Listen to the audio and choose a method to plan your travel diary.
• Brush up your summarising skills with this three level quiz.
• Try out your summarising skills with these five worksheets.

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Factsheets, games, quizes and worksheets to help you with your:

• Spelling.
• Syllables.
• Plurals.
• Prefixes and suffixes.
• Homophones and confusing words and more!

Try this BBC online module.

 

A range of interactive tests and quizzes designed to help with grammer, vocabulary and reading.

Explore the EnglishLearner.com web site.

 

The Antimoon method of efffective English. These tips and resources concerned are aimed at improving your written English and spoken English.

Explore the Antimoon.com web site.

 

A site aimed at people who have English as a second language with resources to help with written and spoken English.

Explore the EslCafe web site.

 

Check the meanings of thew words you read and write and extend your vocabulary, with the Oxford English Online Dictionary.

Search the dictionary.

 

Is your writing getting repitious? Do you need an alternative word that means the same thing?

Look for synonyms by searching Roget's Thesaurus online.