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Common nouns: table, water, girl, house
Singular/plural: boy/boys; goose/geese
Proper nouns: Mary, England, Thursday, Mars
noun
Names a person, place or
thing
Abstract nouns: danger, love, happiness, beauty
Collective nouns: team, audience, swarm, flock
Compound nouns: blackboard, snowflake, playground
Examples: happy, yellow, big, beautiful
adjective
Describes a noun or
pronoun
Positive/Comparative/Superlative adjectives:
good/better/best happy/happier/happiest
‘Doing’ verbs: shine, sit, make, laugh
verb
Doing or being word
‘Being’ verbs: am, is, are, were
‘How’ adverbs: quickly, lazily, eagerly, well
adverb
Describes verbs - (can also
describe adjectives and
other adverbs)
‘When’ adverbs: soon, yesterday, daily, never
‘Where’ adverbs: here, there, everywhere, underground
‘To what extent’ adverbs: extremely, quite, terribly, very
Personal pronouns: I, me, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, you
pronoun
Takes the place of a noun
Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whichever
Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those
Indefinite pronouns: all, both, some, most
Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, ourselves, herself
preposition
Shows the relationship
between a noun or a
pronoun and the rest of the
sentence
Examples: in, under, between, over
Co-ordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, yet
conjunction
Joining word
determiner/
article
Points to the noun; begins a
noun phrase. Determiners
include the definite article
(the) and indefinite article
(a/an) but can be any word
that points to the noun
Subordination conjunctions: because, although, unless,
whenever
Articles: the, a, an
Other determiners include: some, each, every, this