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Chapter 4: Relative clauses and adverbials of time, place and cause

  • Strand Grammar
  • Level Year 5
  • Practice 82 questions with step-by-step solutions

National Curriculum for England, Key Stage 2 English, Year 5. Content: Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, that, whose, where and when (G5-1, TM-Y5a), Leave out the relative pronoun when it is the object of the clause (G5-1), Express time, place and cause with conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions (G5-7), Write sentences with more than one clause, and identify main and subordinate clauses (WV1, TM1, TM3).

Open Year 5 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Choose the right relative pronoun for a person, a thing, a place or a time
  • Add information about a noun with a relative clause
  • Leave out a relative pronoun when the sentence still makes sense
  • Use adverbials to say when, where and why something happens
  • Tell a main clause from a subordinate clause, and join them

You should already know

  • Sentences, clauses and conjunctions (Year 4, Chapter 6)
  • Prepositions and adverbs (Year 4, Chapter 6)

Where this leads

  • Modal verbs and the perfect form (Chapter 5 of this book)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 4.1 Relative pronouns: who, which and that
  2. 4.2 Relative clauses with whose, where and when
  3. 4.3 Leaving out the relative pronoun
  4. 4.4 Adverbials of time, place and cause
  5. 4.5 Main and subordinate clauses
  6. Summary and key words
  7. Check-up and practice test questions

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