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English / Year 3 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482)
Elaborations
- identifying different types of verbs and the way they add meaning to a sentence
- exploring doing and saying verbs in narrative texts to show how they give information about what characters do and say
- exploring the use of sensing verbs and how they allow readers to know what characters think and feel
- exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions
- learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb, for example She arrived’, ‘She is arriving’ and adverbials of time, for example ‘She arrived yesterday’, ‘She is arriving in the morning’
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ScOT terms
Tense (Grammar), Verbs