Greenmount -
a Pathway to Success
Recounts: Diary Entries
 | Features | Grammar | Punctuation |
| Year One | Dates Optional Salutation Chronological Order - sequenced paragraphs Past tense First person - informal A mixture of facts and opinions Rhetorical questions Optional sign-off | Co-ordinating conjunctions - link ideas with and Adverbs/adverbials of time Adverbs/adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases | Capital letters for proper nouns Questions marks |
| Year Two | Dates Optional Salutation Chronological Order - sequenced paragraphs Past tense First person - informal A mixture of facts and opinions Rhetorical questions Optional sign-off | Co-ordinating conjunctions - link ideas with but, so, and, or Subordinating conjunctions - expand upon independent clauses with when, whilst, before, after Adverbs/adverbials of time Adverbs/adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases | Exclamation marks Commas for lists Apostrophes for omission Apostrophes for possession |
| Year Three | Dates Optional Salutation Chronological Order - sequenced paragraphs Past tense First person - informal A mixture of facts and opinions Rhetorical questions Optional sign-off | Co-ordinating conjunctions - but, so, for, and Subordinating conjunctions - when, whilst, before, after Adverbs / adverbials of time Adverbs / adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases | Apostrophes for omission Apostrophes for possession Exclamation marks |
| Year Four | Dates Optional Salutation Chronological Order - sequenced paragraphs Past tense First person - informal A mixture of facts and opinions Rhetorical questions Optional sign-off | Co-ordinating conjunctions - but, so, for, and Subordinating conjunctions - when, whilst, before, after Adverbs / adverbials of time Adverbs / adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases | Commas for fronted adverbials Apostrophes for omission Apostrophes for possession |
| Year Five | Dates Optional Salutation Chronological Order - sequenced paragraphs Past tense First person - informal A mixture of facts and opinions Rhetorical questions Optional sign-off | Subordinating conjunctions - when, whilst, before, after Conjunctive adverbs to flow one point to another Relative clauses to embed extra information Adverbs / adverbials of time Adverbs / adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases | Commas for parenthesis |
| Year Six | Dates Optional Salutation Chronological Order - sequenced paragraphs Past tense First person - informal A mixture of facts and opinions Rhetorical questions Optional sign-off | Subjunctive mood/form Subordinating conjunctions - when, whilst, before, after Conjunctive adverbs to flow one point to another Relative clauses to embed extra information Adverbs / adverbials of time Adverbs / adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases
| Semi-colons Colons Commas, dashes and brackets for parenthesis |