HowtoDazzleatGrammar
Author: Yates,Irene
Blacklinemastersforusewithjuniorhighschoolstudentswithspecialneeds.Thesheetsgivestudentsthe
toolstobeabletotalkaboutandunderstandlanguagedevelopment.Theactivitieswillhelpstudentsto
deconstructlanguage,andthroughthis,toimprovetheirownuseoflanguage.Studentswillpractise:
buildingsentences;identifyingthesubjectandpredicateofsentences;pickingoutverbs;gettingthetense
right;writingadjectives,adverbs,nouns,prepositionsandpronouns;usingidioms;askingquestions;using
speechmarks;puttingwordsintherightorder;usingcommasinlists.
Publisher: AndrewsUK
Category: Education/General
ISBN: 9780857474162
Words: 5,038
Things: 8
Verbs 21.5%
UniqueWords: 681
AdultReadingTime: 0:20
Adjectives 9.2%
AvgSentence(words): 4.65
Sentiment: -0.004
Adverbs 2.0%
AvgWord(chars): 4.54
Intensity: 0.079
Other 4.4%
Chapters: 52
ReadingLevel: 4.1
Profanity: 0
Paragraphs: 1,112
ComplexityIndex: 161
ExplicitActivity: 0
People: 27
SATWords: 51
Violence: 0
Places: 13
Nouns 62.7%
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InterestingFactsandDataVisualizations
Nouns
Nounsinthebookarescored
basedonfrequencywithinthe
book,globalfrequency,partof
speech,namedentities,and
otherspecialrules.Thetop
wordsdisplayedaresizedby
theirrelativeweight.
activity adjective adverb alien alphabet animal ball ben bike book box boy
capital champion code comma concept cut day dictionary dinosaur dog end engine
example football friend garden grammar group helpline highlighter html idiom
institution irene jo language letter line list lot mark
match name need net noun object opposite order owl page part pen pet
information
picture place predicate preposition pronoun publications publisher punctuation pupil
purchasing puzzle question rabbit reinforcement right run sam
sentence sheet shuffle somebody someone something space
speech spelling stop story subject team thing time today tomorrow uk use
verb week word work writing yates yesterday
Verbs
Verbsinthebookarescored
basedonfrequencywithinthe
book,globalfrequency,partof
speech,namedentities,and
otherspecialrules.Thetop
verbsdisplayedaresizedby
theirrelativeweight.
achieve acquire
add age answer apply arise ask assert assimilate become begin believe
call check choose collect come complete contain convert cut dazzle deconstruct
describe design draw eat enable end expect experience explain facilitate fail feel find
build
finish fit fly forget fragment give guess
jump keep kick know land learn
present
happen help highlight identify indicate intend
look love match mean motivate move paste pick play
provide publish pursue question read register remember reprint reproduce
require roar
run save sit sound split start supplement swamp swim talk tell think try
turn understand
use verb walk want win work write
Adjectives
Adjectivesinthebookare
scoredbasedonfrequency
withinthebook,global
frequency,partofspeech,
namedentities,andother
specialrules.Thetop
adjectivesdisplayedaresized
bytheirrelativeweight.
able abstract adjective
alphabetical analytical available bad best big bony
brilliant certain cheerful clean colourful comic constant correct dark dead desperate
diagonal
different difficult easier easy english enough exclamation extinct extra
fabulous
favourite fifth flat flexible floppy friendly frightening full functional
good great greater greatest hard huge hungry important
individual infinitive last latest little missing mixed much murky next nice
funny future
past poorer pop possible practise present prior proper quiet real
reluctant
right round scared scottish secret seventh short shrieked silent
simple
small snappy special structured subject tense thick tight tiny tired twentieth
useful wet white
wild write wrong
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InterestingFactsandDataVisualizations
Adverbs
Adverbsinthebookare
scoredbasedonfrequency
withinthebook,global
frequency,partofspeech,
namedentities,andother
specialrules.Thetopadverbs
displayedaresizedbytheir
relativeweight.
actually almost
always away
backwards
carefully easily fairly far
faster hard hopefully instead normally often originally particularly plenty quite
rather
really right sometimes straight suddenly sure twice usually widely
SATWords
SATwordsoccurringinthe
book.
account acquire alien antonym arrange assimilate badger believe check competence
confidence course desperate difference discussion element exclamation expect extinct
fabulous facilitate felicity flexible guess idiom instance intention material minute modify
nectar opposite possible predicate quiet quite reluctant reproduce resource sense
sentence
separate shuffle success synonym
tense version writing
People
Trajectory'snaturallanguage
analysistoolsprocess
languagetextinput,
transformingeachsentence
intodatathatcanbeusedfor
searchandanalysis.Named
entitiesincludingPeople,
PlacesandThingsare
identified.ThetopPeople
displayedaresizedbytheir
relativeoccurrence.
Ben Bob Chris Daz Donna Emma Eric Fred Gail HarleyDavidson Harry Inderjit
Yates
Jack
Irene
Jo Ken Mabel Neil Nigel Pat Queenie Ryan Sam Simon William Wood
Yasmin
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Places
Trajectory'snaturallanguage
analysistoolsprocess
languagetextinput,
transformingeachsentence
intodatathatcanbeusedfor
searchandanalysis.Named
entitiesincludingPeople,
PlacesandThingsare
identified.ThetopPlaces
displayedaresizedbytheir
relativeoccurrence.
Asia Bedfordshire Birmingham China Dunstable England India Majorca Ohio Tasmania
UK
Xian Zambia
Things
Trajectory'snaturallanguage
analysistoolsprocess
languagetextinput,
transformingeachsentence
intodatathatcanbeusedfor
searchandanalysis.Named
entitiesincludingPeople,
PlacesandThingsare
identified.ThetopThings
displayedaresizedbytheir
relativeoccurrence.
Sentiment
Wordsarescoredbasedon
theirsubjectivemeaning.
"Positive"wordsrangeona
positivescale;"Negative"
wordsrangeonanegative
scale.Trajectory'sAnalytics
Enginecomputesthebook's
sentimentcurveacross
sentence,paragraph,chapter
andentirebook.This
sentiment"fingerprint"atan
aggregatelevelyieldsaunique
pictureofthebook.
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Intensity
Wordsarescoredbasedon
theirsubjectivemeaning.Both
"Positive"and"Negative"words
rangeonapositivescale.
Trajectory'sAnalyticsEngine
computesthebook'sintensity
curveacrosssentence,
paragraph,chapterandentire
book.Thisintensity
"fingerprint"atanaggregate
levelyieldsauniquepictureof
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levelsthroughoutthebook
independentofthenegativeor
positivenatureoftheaction.
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