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Lecturer copy Trainee teachers often seek examples of effective teaching of grammar in primary schools. As many teachers themselves express a lack of confidence in their own knowledge of grammar, where do trainees find exemplar lessons? This book provides them. It takes exemplar lessons and offers them alongside a detailed exploration of what makes them good, and the theory behind them. The text encourages trainees to consider the teaching of grammar critically and to envisage how they can shape lessons for their own teaching. In starting with teaching then exploring theory, the text mirrors how many trainees will learn.
Year 6: Using the Passive Voice
Year 6: Using the Passive Voice
Learning Outcomes
Sentences are units of grammatical meaning which, at the very least, contain subjects (noun phrases) and predicates (containing the verb). However, in some sentences the subject is implied rather than made explicit, with the logical object becoming the subject: we describe these sentences as being in the passive voice as opposed to the active voice. This chapter explores the way sentences can be constructed in the passive voice and addresses the purpose for using this particular sentence construction.
This chapter will allow you to achieve the following outcomes:
- develop an understanding of the active and passive voice;
- have an awareness of the ways different sentence structures can be used for effect;
- consider engaging ways in which ...
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