Year 6 Grammar & Spelling Questions

Grammar

Year 6 GPS work develops grammatical knowledge that supports both reading and writing:

• Identifying all word classes including determiners, prepositions and pronouns
• Understanding main and subordinate clauses; relative clauses and fronted adverbials
• Forming plurals and applying irregular forms (e.g. child/children, mouse/mice)
• Using the present perfect, past tense and continuous forms correctly

Punctuation

Accurate punctuation makes writing clearer and more expressive:

• Commas in lists, after fronted adverbials and around relative clauses
• Apostrophes for omission and possession; inverted commas for direct speech
• Colons, semi-colons, dashes and brackets used accurately for effect
• Editing for punctuation as part of the drafting and revising process

Spelling

Systematic spelling teaching in primary school builds lifelong accuracy:

• Learning all statutory spellings from the Year 5/6 word lists
• Applying morphological knowledge: prefixes and suffixes to build new words
• Identifying and learning common homophones (e.g. there/their/they're)
• Using a dictionary and thesaurus to extend and verify vocabulary choices

YearWise generates a varied set of curriculum-aligned questions every time — so your child has fresh material to practise. Sessions are short (10–30 questions), focused and available on any device. No account needed to get started.