Year 9 English
Agreement with a tricky subject, telling a phrase from a clause, reading between the lines, why the writer wrote it, reporting verbs, modals and tense, questions and comparisons, commas with clauses, quantifiers and commonly confused words.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Reading: comprehension
Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
- Agreement with a tricky subjectLesson
Make the verb agree with its real subject, even when other words come in between.
- Phrases and clausesLesson
Tell a phrase from a clause, and a main clause from a subordinate one.
- Say, tell and other reporting verbsLesson
Choose the reporting verb that says what the speaker was really doing, and know which of them must name the listener straight afterwards.
- Modals of obligation and probabilityLesson
Say how strong an obligation is with must, have to, should and ought to, and say how sure you are with must, might and cannot.
- Tense in stories and in reportsLesson
Choose the tense a piece of writing needs — the past for a story or a report, the present for instructions and general facts, and the past perfect for what happened earlier still.
- Asking questionsLesson
Build a question from a statement — moving the helping verb, adding do, does or did, and spotting the questions that need no helping verb at all.
- Comparison structuresLesson
Compare with as … as, than, twice as … as and the more … the more, and build each of them into a whole sentence.
- Commas with clausesLesson
Put the comma where a clause needs one — after a clause that comes first, around an extra piece of information, and between two main clauses joined by a joining word.
- Quantifiers: how much and how manyLesson
Choose the quantifier that fits the noun and the amount — all, most, some, none, both, several, plenty — and know when it needs "of" after it.
- Words that are easy to confuseLesson
Choose correctly between words that sound alike or look alike — accept and except, affect and effect, advice and advise, its and it's, lose and loose.