Exploring Word Classes in Grammar

Grammar Starter Word classes revisited! All Most Some Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition? Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples? Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

In the back of your exercise book... Grammar Starter: Word classes revisited! Definition: Sentences are made up of different word classes. Here are the main ones: Adjective = A word that modifies (describes) a noun. Adverb = A word used to describe a verb. Verb = An action or state of being (a doing word). Noun = A word used to name something or someone (objects, names, people). Pronoun = A pronoun is used instead of using a noun or a name. Connective = A word which joins phrases, clauses and sentences together. Example: She thought the stars sparkled brightly because the night sky was black. All Most Some Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition? Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples? Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

Task time: create your own Write five of your own sentences, trying to include at least one adjective, adverb, verb, noun, pronoun and connective. Then colour-code your sentences. For example: Lewis drives a fast car because he really thinks he is cool! 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Extension Can you find any other word classes? All Most Some Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition? Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples? Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

Task time: now find it! Key: Read the passage and then colour in all the word types using the key. adverb adjective verb noun pronoun connective Extension Can you find any other word classes? All Most Some Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition? Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples? Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

Task time: now find it! Clouds covered the crescent moon. In the narrow winding streets of the Tsiyonim Quarter of Arcassanne, the shutters were tightly barred, the doors double-locked against the night...and the darker shadows who stalked the night. Rahab the tailor was still working in his garret, bending close over his work by the light of one oil-lamp. What was that noise outside? Startled, he pricked his finger. Casting down the work so that he should not stain it with his blood, he paused, listening. The night's silence hurt his straining ears. He went to the casement window and threw it open, gazing down into the dark three storeys below. 'Who's there?' he shouted. There was a shudder of movement. Someone - or something - had slipped out of the shadows and was running away. 'Stop!' Rahab's voice echoed, reverberating in the narrow alley. Shutters opened, heads leaned out into the night. Rahab went hurtling down the rickety stairs and out into the street. He almost fell headlong over the bundle left lying on the doorstep. Picking himself up, he bent to see what had tripped him. A large heap of old clothes dumped outside - Whose idea of a joke was it, to leave stinking rags outside the tailor's? Clouds scudded away from the moon. In the moonlight Rahab caught sight of the hand protruding from the bundle. A little hand. A child's hand. All Most Some Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition? Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples? Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?