Nouns
The name of a place or person, starting with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
Words like must, could, would and shall.
Give me some examples of modal verbs.
An adverb or adverbial phrase that comes at the beginning of a sentence.
What is a fronted adverbial?
A pronoun that begins a relative clause - usually who, which, that, where etc.
What is a relative pronoun?
The preposition in this sentence:
The girl was dancing on the table.
What is 'on' in this sentence?
The name of something that can't be touched, seen or heard.
What is an abstract noun?
'We were having breakfast' is a clause in this tense.
Give me an example of the past progressive tense.
The adverb in this sentence:
"I will go home tomorrow," said our unexpected visitor.
What is "tomorrow" in this sentence?
The pronouns in this sentence:
She gave me a pound and I took it gratefully.
What are 'she', 'I' and 'it'?
The prepositions in this sentence:
I found a mouldy sandwich behind the seat in my Dad's car.
What are 'behind' and 'in' in this sentence?
The word before a noun or noun phrase that tells you whether the noun is specific or general, plural or singular etc.
What is a determiner?
'I am going to the shops' is a clause in this tense.
Adverbs like now, later, eventually, suddenly, yesterday.
Adverbs of time.
The pronoun(s) in this sentence:
Jemima ate her ice-cream whilst her brother dropped his on the floor.
What is 'his' in this sentence?
The preposition in this sentence:
I really enjoyed the book I read by J.K.Rowling.
What is 'by' in this sentence?
A noun made up of two other words joined together, sometimes with a hyphen.
What is a compound noun?
A sentence that gives an instruction to someone, using a 'bossy' verb.
What is a command sentence?
At the end of the day we all tidied up and went home.
What punctuation mark is missing from this sentence?
The relative pronoun in this sentence:
Mrs Baker, whose husband works abroad, has just found a new job.
What is 'whose'?
The prepositional phrase within this sentence:
It is not clever to hide underneath the table when your Granny visits.
What is 'underneath the table'?
A word that stands in place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Changing the subject and object round so that something is done to someone rather than someone is doing something. e.g. The dog was fed (by zombies).
What does writing in the passive voice mean?
The three main categories of adverb.
What is the significance of time, manner and place?
The contracted form of 'we have'.
What is 'we've'?
The prepositional phrase within this sentence:
'From Russia with Love' is my favourite James Bond movie.
What is 'From Russia with Love'?