ESOL Rs/E3.1b Use knowledge of syntax and grammar to work out meaning
Use knowledge of syntax and grammar to work out meaning and confirm understanding in other types of text at this level (a) Name and understand the use of key grammatical forms, such as tenses, conjunctions, articles, adverbs, adjectives, negative, pronoun, phrase and how they carry meaning (b) Understand that new information is often placed towards the end of the sentence (c) Recognise the relationship between clauses in sentences in straightforward texts (d) Use key discourse markers to help prediction and understanding (e) Know that sentence grammar in poetry - in particular, word order - may be different from that of prose (f) Recognise which words belong together, e.g. the words that form a noun phrase or a prepositional phrase