Grammar Gremlins
Literacy Challenge No Comments »Hi year 6 - consider this a cheat sheet for your next Grammar check. Copy and paste this and put it on your own blogs so that you have something to check before your next test.
Common NOUN - the name given to a person, place or thing eg pimple, towel, pumpkin
ADJECTIVE - a word which describes a noun eg. blind, prickly, enormous
PROPER NOUN - the name of a particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns have capital letters. eg Kevin Rudd, Canberra, Prime Minister
VERB - an action or a doing word. If you can do it, then it’s a verb eg crawl, tickle, swim
ADVERB - Adds to the verb. Usually ends in ly and usually answers the question “how” something was done. eg. erratically, mercilessly, quickly
PERSONAL PRONOUN - a word which indicates personal onwership eg she, he, they, we, them, their, we,
CONJUNCTION - A word that joins 2 ideas together in a sentence. eg. and, then, so, but. One conjunction, one fullstop. A sentence must only contain one conjunction.
PREPOSITION - A word which indicates the “position” of something, compared to something else eg. the frog in the pond, the turtle under the rocks