Nouns
A person, place, thing, feeling or idea.
What is a noun?
A word expressing being, doing or having in a sentence.
What is a verb?
A word used to give more information about the noun in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
Locate the proper nouns in the sentence:
Mr Baxter was enjoying his morning coffee at Zarraffas, whilst reading The Guardian newspaper.
What are 'Mr Baxter', 'Zarraffas' and 'The Guardian'?
Examples include: A murder of crows; a smack of jellyfish; a cauldron of bats; a tower of giraffes; a leap of leopards; a crash of rhinoceroses
What are collective nouns?
Daniel, Darren, Israel, Greece, Monique, Nike, Jenny are all examples of this.
What is a proper noun?
A word expressing a physical or mental action in a sentence eg. running, swimming, jumping, thinking, daydreaming.
What is an action verb?
The place in a sentence where you would find an adjective.
What is before or after the noun?
Locate the action verbs in the following sentence:
Kodeum was sitting in the quiet forest pondering the question, "What is life?".
What are sitting and pondering?
What a sentence must begin and end with.
What are a capital letter and a full stop?
table, pen, football, clock, necklace, jeans, trees are all examples of this.
What is a concrete noun?
The main verb in a sentence that does not express any action eg. Korey is happy.
What is a linking verb?
Malipo is the more determined of the two students is an example of this type of adjective.
What is a comparative degree adjective?
Locate the abstract nouns in the sentence:
Nakia showed great courage when facing her fears.
What are courage and fears?
Punctuation used to show a question has been asked.
What is a question mark?
achievement, frustration, freedom, kindness are all examples of this.
What is an abstract noun?
The two verbs in this sentence:
Lara is preparing dinner for her family.
What are is and preparing?
Usmaan is polite is an example of this type of adjective.
What is a positive degree adjective?
Locate the adjectives in the sentence:
Rosie's playful puppy ran around the spacious backyard.
What are playful and spacious?
Used in writing to show great excitement or that someone is shouting.
What is an exclamation mark?
audience, class, jury, team, herd, pile, pack, are all examples of this.
What is a collective noun?
If you can substitute one of these three verbs into a sentence and it still makes sense, you have a linking verb.
What are 'am, is or are'?
Levi is the tallest in the class is an example of this type of adjective.
What is a superlative degree adjective?
Locate the adjective in the sentence:
CJ is more honest than Percy.
What is 'more honest'?
The names of people in the class who haven't been mentioned in this quiz yet.
Who are Julian, Michael, Joe, Manaia, Nelson, Orlando, Enrique, Brandon, and Mrs Morrah?