KS2 English textbook

Chapter 5: Relative clauses and expanded noun phrases

Strand Grammar
Level Year 6
Practice 100 questions with step-by-step solutions

National Curriculum for England, Key Stage 2 English, Year 6. Content: Use relative clauses beginning with who, which or that to add information about a person or a thing (Y5-6 grammar), Use relative clauses beginning with where, when or whose, to add information about a place, a time or a possession (Y5-6 grammar), Use a relative clause with the relative pronoun left out, e.g. the book I read (Y5-6 grammar), Use expanded noun phrases that convey complicated information concisely, e.g. the old man who lived at the end of the lane (Y5-6 grammar), Join sentences with relative clauses, so that a text is concise and does not repeat words (Y5-6 grammar).

Open Year 6 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

Choose who, which, that, where, when or whose to fit the noun it describes
Copy a relative clause from a sentence, and say which noun it describes
Leave out the relative pronoun where the sentence still makes sense
Build an expanded noun phrase with an adjective, a phrase and a clause
Join two short sentences into one, using a relative clause

You should already know

Noun phrases, and the words that describe a noun (Year 4 grammar)
Subordinate clauses, and conjunctions (Year 4 grammar, Chapter 6 of the Year 4 book)

Where this leads

Modal verbs, the perfect form and the passive (Chapter 6 of this book)

Lessons in this chapter

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Practise with real exam questions

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