Grammar Garden

What your child will figure out

• Identify nouns and verbs by the jobs they do in a sentence.
• Choose verbs that agree with simple, compound, inverted, and deliberately separated subjects.
• Use time clues and event order to control simple, progressive, perfect, and conditional verb forms.
• Repair capitals, apostrophes, commas, sentence endings, and direct speech in adaptive generated contexts.

The levels

1. Meet the word seeds

   Predict which word is the action, plant it, observe the first bloom, and explain the jobs of nouns and verbs.

2. The agreement arch

   Make a singular subject and verb agree, then explain that the subject controls the verb form.

3. The teamwork patch

   Join two named subjects and select the plural present verb that agrees with the compound subject.

4. The hidden-subject path

   Ignore a nearby plural noun inside an of phrase and trace agreement back to the true singular subject.

5. The yesterday border

   Use an explicit past-time clue to select a regular past-tense verb.

6. The windy orchard

   Recognise that an irregular past verb changes form rather than adding -ed.

7. The right-now pond

   Combine a plural helping verb with an -ing form to express an action in progress now.

8. The name-label nursery

   Capitalise a sentence start, day, title, and personal name while leaving common nouns lowercase.

9. The question-vine corner

   Use a capital and question mark to signal a sentence that asks.

10. The talking trellis

    Mark direct speech with a speaker boundary, quotation marks, capitals, and question punctuation.

11. The before-and-after maze

    Use the past perfect to show which of two past events happened first.

12. Greenhouse transfer

    Transfer agreement, tense, capitals, clause punctuation, and direct speech into one novel whole-sentence repair.