Year 3

(previous year group vocabulary) 

preposition, conjunction

word family, prefix

clause, subordinate clause

direct speech

consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter

inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)

noun, noun phrase

statement, question, exclamation, command

compound, suffix

adjective, adverb, verb

tense (past, present)

apostrophe, comma

Year 4

(previous year group vocabulary) 

determiner

pronoun, possessive pronoun

adverbial

preposition, conjunction

word family, prefix

clause, subordinate clause

direct speech

consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter

inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)

Year 5

(previous year groups vocabulary) 

modal verb, relative pronoun

relative clause

parenthesis, bracket, dash

cohesion, ambiguity

preposition, conjunction

word family, prefix

clause, subordinate clause

direct speech

consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter

inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)

determiner

pronoun, possessive pronoun

adverbial

Year 6

(previous year groups vocabulary) 

subject, object

active, passive

synonym, antonym

ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points

preposition, conjunction

word family, prefix

clause, subordinate clause

direct speech

consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter

inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)

determiner

pronoun, possessive pronoun

adverbial

modal verb, relative pronoun

relative clause

parenthesis, bracket, dash

cohesion, ambiguity