Students learn to link ideas with words that show time, condition and topic relationships.
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Year 4 · Conventions of language
Grammar and sentences
Build complex sentences and use clauses, phrases, connectives, tense and reported speech.
100 questions and practical tasks · 10 practice sets
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Set 1
Questions 1–10
time cause and condition
10 questions & tasks → Set 2Questions 11–20
time cause and condition
10 questions & tasks → Set 3Questions 21–30
independent and dependent clauses
10 questions & tasks → Set 4Questions 31–40
independent and dependent clauses · adverb groups and prepositional phrases
10 questions & tasks → Set 5Questions 41–50
adverb groups and prepositional phrases
10 questions & tasks → Set 6Questions 51–60
adverb groups and prepositional phrases · consistent verb tense
10 questions & tasks → Set 7Questions 61–70
consistent verb tense
10 questions & tasks → Set 8Questions 71–80
consistent verb tense · direct and reported speech
10 questions & tasks → Set 9Questions 81–90
direct and reported speech
10 questions & tasks → Set 10Questions 91–100
editing for clear meaning
10 questions & tasks →Curriculum links
These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.
Students learn how complex sentences join a complete idea with an extra idea using words such as because, when, although and if.
Students learn to add details about how, when, where and why something happens.
Students learn how verb tense tells when an action happens and why tense consistency matters.
Students learn the difference between exact spoken words and speech that is retold in the writer's own words.
Students edit writing by improving meaning, content and structure, not just fixing spelling.
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