Welcome! The purpose of this presentation is to inform you of the grammatical terms/word classes your child will be come across, and be using as they progress through our school.
14th November 2015
Grammatical terms/word classes Nouns-
naming word for a person/people, places, objects nouns can be singular or plural (e.g. cat/cats) nouns can be common (e.g. dog, cat) nouns can be proper (e.g. the name of a particular person, place or
thing, and always starts with a capital letter) - nouns can be collective (e.g. team) - nouns can be abstract (e.g. those that you cannot see/touch and can be emotions) Pronouns- stand in for a noun (e.g. I, you, he, she, we, they, my, your, his, her, our, their)
Possessive pronouns-used to refer to a specific person/people or thing/things (e.g. my, mine, our, ours, its, his, her, hers, their, theirs, your and yours)
Relative pronouns-introduces an adjective clause (e.g. that, which, who, whom, whose)
Determiners- ‘home’ you in on the noun (e.g. this child, that child, all children,
every child, some children, no child, each child, his child, my child)
Noun phrases- a group of words that describes the noun
Verbs- a ‘doing’ or ‘being’ word. It tells us what is happening in the sentence. (e.g. jump, run)
Modal verbs- used to express such ideas as possibility, willingness, speculation, deduction and necessity (e.g. can/could, will/would, shall/should, may/might, must/ought)
Adverb- the use of ‘ly’ in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs (e.g. quickly, slowly, carefully) - tells us how, when, or where (e.g. happily, last, then, next, soon, therefore) - indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) Adverbials-a word or phrase which adds detail/provides further information to a verb. They are used to explain how, where or when something
happened (e.g. I energetically thanked Miss Woods, there was a special
Collective Worship in the hall)
Fronted adverbials- words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence, used to describe the action that follows (e.g. Before the sun came up, he ate his breakfast. All night long, she danced. As fast as he could, the rabbit hopped) Prepositions- expressing time, place and cause using prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of) Adjectives- describes the noun (e.g. terrible, incredible, beautiful) Conjuctions- joins two sentences or clauses (e.g. when, before, after, while, so, because)
Relative clauses- these are clauses that start with the relative pronoun who, that, which, whose, where, when. They are most often used to define or identify the noun that precedes them Inverted commas- speech marks indicating direct speech Apostrophes- mark possession (e.g. Miss Wood’s coat, the teachers’ coats) - mark contracted forms (e.g. we have = we’ve) Contractions- a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the letters usually marked by an apostophe (e.g. she’d, you’ve, I’d, doesn’t, it’s, where’d, might’ve, that’ll, wouldn’t)
Prefix- a word or letter/letters placed at the beginning of another word to change its meaning (e.g. disagree, unexpected, reconnect, illogic) Suffix- a word or letter/letters placed at the end of another word to change its meaning (e.g. prediction, properly, reasonable) Homophones- words that sound alike, but have different meanings and spellings (e.g red/read, write/right, see/sea) Synonyms- words that have the same or nearly the same meaning (e.g.
sleepy/drowsy/listless/sluggish, intelligent/clever/knowledgeable) Antonyms- are two words that have the opposite meaning (e.g. cautious/careless, complex/simple, brave/cowardly)
Homonyms- are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings (e.g. accessory/accessary, altar/alter)
Any questions? Should you have any questions regarding this information then please do not hesitate to ask. No question is ever too small!
