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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 Broke – Heard – Saw – Thought – Sang – Dug – Jumped – Woke – to wake to break to hear to sing to think to dig to jump to see

When talking about more than one person and yourself, the others come first and you refer to yourself as ‘I’. I or me 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 – fight – interest - challenge – move- wrestle - building fighting interesting challenging moving wrestling begin– stop – plan - swim – shop - hope - beginning stopping planning swimming shopping hoping

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?

asking something – must have a question mark at the end - ? Question 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 – fast– slow - large – small- funny - biggest fastest slowest largest smallest funniest nasty– tall – wide - loud – quiet - quick - nastiest tallest widest loudest quietest 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 – Family - engine – Structure- box - bodies cities families engines structures boxes fox – knife – woman - child – leaf - calf - foxes knives women children leaves 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 – She will – He had – Will not – don’t she’ll he’d 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 – I went to the shops – singular Plural/ group Not needed not showing possession

Spelling adding suffix - ed absorb – finish– develop - deliver – plan- grab - absorbed finished devloped delivered planned grabbed slip– stop – carry - qualify – arrive - replace - slipped stopped carried 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 – gentle– perfect - smooth – extreme- important - actually gently perfectly smoothly extremely importantly thorough– gradual– general - speed – careful - approximate - thoroughly gradually generally speedily carefully approximately

Prefix/ suffix to change meaning adding a suffix or prefix can change the meaning of a word. happy – pleased – possible – believe – behave – unhappy displeased impossible unbelievable 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 superlative- When using an adjective you can use them in the comparative and superlative. There are some exceptions Irregular Adjective Comparative Form Superlative Form good bad far little many Big busy careful