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Noun -
A noun is a word used to
name a person, animal,
place or thing,
e.g. The table is red
Connectives A connective joins two clauses together
…………………………….., Bob was not hungry
he ate his dinner
Fred went to the supermarket
………………………….. he wanted some
cheese.
Past tense changes
Woke –
to wake
Broke –
to break
Heard –
to hear
Sang –
to sing
Thought –
Saw –
Dug –
Jumped –
to think
to see
to dig
to jump
I or me
When talking about more than one
person and yourself, the others come
first and you refer to yourself as ‘I’.
Bob and ….. went to the shop.
The teacher asked Fred and ….. to get some paper.
The teacher asked ….. to pick up the felt tip.
Capital letters
Where do we put them?????
1. Beginning of a sentence
2. When you are talking about yourself – I
3. For Proper nouns e.g names, months of
the year, days of the week, countries and titles.
Spelling
Adding ing
build –
building
fight –
fighting
interest challenge –
movewrestle -
interesting
challenging
moving
wrestling
begin–
beginning
stop –
stopping
plan -
planning
–
swimming
shop -
shopping
hope -
hoping
swim
Verb
Verbs are doing words.
A verb usually expresses an action.
Can you give me some verbs??????
Speech marks
(inverted commas)
Speech marks go around what a person is said.
Punctuation marks go inside the speech marks.
Sam asked Have I time to get
popcorn after he had bought his ticket.
Where does the
punctuation go?
Question
asking something –
must have a question mark at the end - ?
Statement
explains something.
Command
tells you to do something.
Question, Statement or Command?
Do you want to go shopping
I love shopping
Go to the shop and get chocolate
Spelling
Superlatives -est
big –
biggest
fast–
fastest
slow -
slowest
large –
largest
small-
smallest
funny -
funniest
nasty–
nastiest
tall –
tallest
wide -
widest
loud
loudest
–
quiet -
quietest
quick -
quickest
Exclamation marks
Exclamation marks are used after
strong feelings, someone shouting or
a command.
Adjectives
Adjectives describe a noun.
The ………………. and ………………..cat.
The ……………………. book.
Adverbs
- Adverbs describe how a verb is being done
( ad – verb adding to a verb )
- Always end in ‘ly’
Ben ran ………… down the road.
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place
of a noun.
he,
she,
it,
they,
someone,
who,
them,
her,
him,
we,
I
Commas for clauses or phrase
- Commas are put in between the
main and subordinate clause.
- A clause has a verb a phrase does not
When I arrived everyone else was waiting for me.
The sofa which is red is the cat’s favourite place to sleep.
Where do the commas go?
Articles
it tells you within a sentence
how many nouns there are.
Can you give me
any examples?
Spellings
Plurals
body –
city –
bodies
cities
Family -
families
engine –
engines
Structure-
structures
box -
boxes
fox –
foxes
knife –
knives
woman -
women
child
children
–
leaf -
leaves
calf -
calves
Synonyms
A synonym is a word or expression that
has nearly the same meaning.
It can have a stronger or weaker meaning.
big
numerous
jump
Antonyms
Antonyms are words that have an
opposite meaning.
I love the rain – I hate the rain
Big
Small
Tall
Hygienic
Shiny
Contraction and Omission
this is when you put two words together
and take out a letter/ letters, replacing
them with an apostrophe
do not –
don’t
She will –
she’ll
He had –
he’d
Will not –
won’t
Apostrophes for Possession
Only use them to show that something
belongs to somebody.
If the noun belongs to a group of people
then the apostrophe goes after the s.
Fred went to fetch the dog’s ball –
Mrs Wraith handed out the girls’ book –
singular
Plural/ group
I went to the shops – Not needed not showing possession
Spelling
adding suffix - ed
absorb –
absorbed
finish–
finished
develop -
devloped
deliver –
delivered
plan-
planned
grab -
grabbed
slip–
slipped
stop –
stopped
carry -
carried
qualify
–
arrive replace -
qualified
arrived
replaced
Homophones –
When a word is the same either in sound or
spelling but has more than one meaning.
Write two sentences showing the two different meanings
present
ruler
plan
tune
Prepositions
A preposition is a word that shows the
relationship between a noun or a
pronoun and another word in the
sentence. (when or where a noun is)
Look for time connective or a word that
tells you the position of the noun.
My dog is …… the bed
Brackets –
put around extra information.
Spelling
adding suffix - ly
actual –
actually
gentle–
gently
perfect -
perfectly
smooth –
smoothly
extreme-
extremely
important -
importantly
thorough–
thoroughly
gradual–
gradually
general -
generally
–
speedily
careful -
carefully
speed
approximate -
approximately
Prefix/ suffix to change meaning
adding a suffix or prefix can change
the meaning of a word.
happy –
pleased –
unhappy
displeased
possible –
impossible
believe –
unbelievable
behave –
misbehave
Phrase or Clause –
a clause must have an active verb
A phrase is extra detail and has NO verb
In the morning, I must visit the shops.
Which is the clause,
which is the phrase?
Comparative and superlativeWhen using an adjective you can use them in the comparative and superlative.
Big
busy
careful
There are some exceptions
Irregular
Adjective
good
bad
far
little
many
Comparative
Form
Superlative
Form