Capital letters and full stops ................................................................................12 Commas ....................................................................................................................27 Apostrophes .............................................................................................................30 Possessive adjectives and pronouns ..................................................................59 Double negatives ..................................................................................................100 Present tense and past tense ............................................................................154 Key spellings ..........................................................................................................172 Synonyms ...............................................................................................................213 Antonyms ...............................................................................................................218 Its and it’s ...............................................................................................................240 Prefi xes and suffi xes.............................................................................................308 Conjunctions ..........................................................................................................328 Verbs and adverbs ................................................................................................354 Compound nouns ..................................................................................................386 Colons and semicolons ........................................................................................398
How to...
Remember how to answer questions ................................................................ xv Remember how to give a presentation ............................................................ xvi Remember how to research ............................................................................... xvii Remember how to draft and redraft ................................................................. xix How to analyse poetry .............................................................................................7 How to examine fi lm ..............................................................................................41 How to examine stagecraft ................................................................................145 How to read visual texts ......................................................................................162
Checklists
Personal letters..........................................................................................................6 Diary entries .............................................................................................................16 Interviews .................................................................................................................20 Personal writing.......................................................................................................24 Speeches ...................................................................................................................26 Blogs ..........................................................................................................................47 Short stories .............................................................................................................56 Feature articles ........................................................................................................65 Debates .....................................................................................................................72 Emails ........................................................................................................................83 Reviews ....................................................................................................................138 Formal letters .........................................................................................................215 Radio talks ..............................................................................................................294 Descriptive writing ................................................................................................364
