Download Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives Sentence Types Sentence Moods Adverbs

Nouns.
Noun: A word that name people, places, things, activities and states.
Proper Noun: the names of particular people, places, or things. They
always start with a capital letter-for example, Laura, Hong Kong,
Wednesday, The Times.
Common Nouns: Nouns that don’t refer to particular people, places
and things are common nouns.
Count-nouns: Nouns that have a plural form; refers to something you
can count the number of. For example., car, coin, ball.
Adjectives
Sentence Types
Adjective:: A word that describes a noun
Main Clause: A clause that can form a complete sentence on its
own. E.g. ‘We didn’t like the film’ in, ‘Because it was scary, we didn’t
like the film..’
Comparative Adjectives: Used when we compare one thing for
another. For example, ‘cold’ becomes, ‘colder’.
Superlative Adjectives: Used when we compare more than two
things. For example, ‘cold’, ‘colder’ and ‘coldest’. The strongest
form of an adjective.
Non-count nouns: A noun that doesn’t have a plural form; refers to
something you can’t count the number of. For example., love, traffic,
money.
Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an
adjective, verb, or other adverb,
Pronoun: a word that can replace a noun. For example, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘I’,
‘They’. If we didn’t have pronouns, our writing would sound very
repetitive.
Adverbs
Subject: The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or
idea that is doing or being something. E.g. ‘Dog’ in ‘The dog barked
at the cat.’
Object: the object in a sentence as the thing that is acted upon by
the subject. E.g. ‘Cat’ in ‘The dog barked at the cat.’
Simple Sentence: a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a
single subject and verb
Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an
adjective, verb, or other adverb,
Collective Pronoun: A noun that refers to a group of people. For
example, ‘us’, or ‘we’.
Assessment
Verbs.
Subordinate Clause:: A clause that can’t form a complete sentence
on its own and gives extra information to the main clause. E.g.
‘Because it was scar’ in, ‘Because it was scary, we didn’t like the
film.’
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Compound Sentence: a sentence with more than one subject or
predicate, usually containing a connective.
Complex Sentence: a sentence containing a subordinate clause.
Voice
A verb is a word that represents an action, speech, or a sense.
Homework
The infinitive form of a verb is the verb in its basic form. It is the
version of the verb which will appear in the dictionary.
The infinitive form of a verb is usually preceded by to (e.g., to run, to
dance, to think).
You will be regularly tested on your knowledge
of grammar using weekly homework tasks
focusing on the above.
Active Voice: A sentence in which the subject is placed before the
verb.
Sentence Moods
Verb Phrase: A set of words consisting of a main verb and an auxiliary
verb.
Main verb: The main action of the sentence
Declarative Sentence: A declarative sentence (also known as a
statement) makes a statement and ends with a full stop. E.g. ‘It is
cold.’
Interrogative Sentence: Any sentence that is a question. E.g. ‘Is it
cold?’
Auxiliary verb. It comes before the man verb and changes the
meaning of the verb phrase. For example, ‘might’ in ‘I might read my
book.’
Modal Verb: A type of auxiliary verb that indicated degrees of
certainty: Can, Could, Should, Would, May, Might, Must, Will, Ought,
Shall
Exclamatory Sentence: An exclamatory sentence, or exclamation,
is a more forceful version of a declarative sentence. Ends in an
exclamation mark. E.g. ‘It’s cold!’
Imperative Sentence: An imperative sentence gives a command.
Can end in a full stop or an exclamation mark. E.g. ‘Shut the
window.’
Passive Voice: A sentence in which the subject is placed after the
verb, or omitted.