Words Definition Example A describing word found before a noun or after a A sticky bun. He was surprised . adjective verb. noun – names for people, places and things

common noun – Objects or things which you can see dog, child, day, computer and touch (not unique names of people, places and

things).

noun Fred, Stockwood, Monday, Xbox proper noun – Unique names given to people, places

and things (must start with a capital letter).

class of children, herd of sheep collective noun – A word which groups nouns.

verb – A word which tells us what someone or He lives in Bristol. She was verb something is doing or feeling (can be present, past crying . I feel happy. I am tall. or future).

Ben soon started snoring loudly A word that describes a verb often ending in ‘ly’. adverb and quickly .

Behind, beyond, on, close A word which tells us where something or someone She’ll be back from Peru in two preposition is in time or place. weeks.

A word used to link parts of a sentence together but, because, or, yet, so, how, conjunction (a type of connective). whether, when

Three words that introduce a noun (the, an, a) the, an a article (these are a type of determiner) .

the, a, an (articles) determiner A word which introduces and clarifies a noun . this, that, some, every my, your, one, two,

A word which replaces a noun that has already John put his hat on and he left. pronoun been mentioned. That is a good idea.

I am, you are, he is, The subject of a sentence is the person, place, Rita went out. That is uncertain subject thing, or idea that is doing or being something . Children like dogs.

Words are synonyms if they have the same Old, ancient, elderly synonym meaning. Small, minute, tiny

Words are homophones if they look different, hear, here homophone sound the same and mean different things. some, sum

Groups of Definition Example words A group of words without a verb or any phrase punctuation, which wouldn’t make sense the dog and the chicken as a sentence on its own.

A phrase that tells you more about a the long, winding road noun phrase noun, without a verb. people with glasses

A group of words containing a verb clause which makes sense on its own but has no the small mouse squeaked punctuation.

A group of words containing at least one verb and subject, which makes sense Noisily the rain crashed sentence on its own . It can be a statement, down onto the golden leaves. question, exclamation or command.

A group of words which contains a main clause subject and a verb , which makes sense The man wore a purple hat. on its own.

A group of words that gives us extra subordinate He watched her as she information and doesn’t make sense on clause disappeared . its own.

A ‘w’ clause is a type of subordinate relative clause. Often starting with who, which, The boy , who had brown clause when or where, adds in extra hair, tripped over. information.

adverbial A phrase which tells you more about a She brushes her hair from phrase verb. top to bottom .