inside the word
What is the ROOT/BASE in "careless"?
care
Add a suffix to TEACH to make a word for a person
teacher
What word class is TEACHER?
noun
Find the subject: My brother plays football.
my brother
Correct the mistake: My brother football plays.
My brother plays football.
What is the prefix in "unhappy"?
un-
Add a prefix to make POSSIBLE negative
IMpossible
What word class is the all-caps word?
She answered the question QUICKLY.
adverb
Identify S - V - O: Emma reads books.
emma - s
reads - v
books - o
Correct the error: She coffee drinks every morning.
She drinks coffee every morning.
What is the suffix in "teacher"?
-er
happiness
Identify the noun, verb, and adjective: The nervous student answered the question.
student = noun
answered = verb
nervous = adjective
Identify the elements of the sentence: Sarah studies English every evening.
Sarah = S
studies = V
English = O
every evening = Adverbial
Correct: English she speaks very well.
She speaks English very well.
break disagreement into parts
dis-agree-ment
prefix - base - suffix
Make 3 words from the base SUCCESS : 1. a noun; 2. an adjective; 3. an adverb
success - N
successful - ADJ
successfully - ADV
Look at the word FAST:
It is a FAST car. /// The car moves FAST.
Is fast the same word class in both sentences? Justify your answer.
No, because in the first sentence it is "a fast car" – an adjective as it describes the noun "car".
In the second sentence, it is "moves fast" – an adverb, as it tells us how the car moves.
Analyse the sentence: My younger sister is very tired today.
Identify S, V, C, and A
My younger sister = Subject
is = Verb
very tired = Complement
today = Adverbial
Correct the sentence and explain the word-order problem: Every weekend my grandparents I visit.
"Every weekend I visit my grandparents." or "I visit my grandparents every weekend."
The subject I should come before the verb visit, and the object my grandparents comes after the verb.
Compare these words "help", "helpful", "unhelpful" and explain how the word changes at each step.
help = root/base
help + ful = helpful : suffix -ful is added; noun/verb shifts to adjective (different word class)
un- + helpful = unhelpful
prefix un- is added; it changes the meaning to the opposite/negative meaning
Use the correct form of SUCCESS in all three gaps and identify their word classes:
The project was a great __________.
The students completed it __________.
Their teacher said it was a very __________ project.
The project was a great success.
The students completed it successfully.
Their teacher said it was a very successful project.
success = noun
successfully = adverb
successful = adjective
Identify the word classes of all the highlighted words: The surprisingly calm student answered the difficult question confidently.
surprisingly = adverb
calm = adjective
student = noun
answered = verb
difficult = adjective
question = noun
confidently = adverb
Analyse the whole sentence: The successful student answered the difficult question confidently yesterday.
Identify: Subject, Verb, Object, Adverbial(s)
Which words describe the nouns?
The successful student = Subject
answered = Verb
the difficult question = Object
confidently = Adverbial
yesterday = Adverbial
Describes nouns: successful describes student, difficult describes question
There are several word-order problems here. Correct the whole sentence and explain at least two changes:
"Yesterday very quickly her homework finished Anna at home."
Yesterday, Anna finished her homework very quickly at home.
OR: Anna finished her homework very quickly at home yesterday.
Anna = subject → before the main verb
finished = verb
her homework = object → after the verb
very quickly = adverbial of manner
at home = adverbial of place
yesterday = adverbial of time and can appear at the beginning or end