Year 6 · English · SATs grammar and writing revision · Lesson 2

Clauses, sentences and tenses

SATs grammar revision: main, subordinate and relative clauses, sentence types including SATs exclamations, perfect and progressive tenses, active and passive, subject and object.

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Identify main and subordinate clauses
Name sentence types
Identify and form tenses
Convert active and passive

The method

Stands alone?
Subordinate?
Helping verb.
Was... by.

Key words: main clause, subordinate clause, exclamation, present perfect, past progressive, passive.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Underline the main clause: ‘When the bell rang, the children lined up.’

Step 1: Stands alone

Answer: the children lined up

Question 2

Underline the subordinate clause: ‘We stayed in because it was raining.’

Step 1: because...

Answer: because it was raining

Question 3

Find the relative clause: ‘My aunt, who lives in Wales, is a vet.’

Step 1: who...

Answer: who lives in Wales