Collective Nouns
What is a collective noun?
A noun that refers to a group of people, animals or things.
What is a past and present participle?
A participle that typically expresses present or past action.
What are the three degrees of comparison forms of an adjective or verb?
Positive, comparative and superlative
What is a homophone?
Two or more words with the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins and spelling.
What is a prefix and suffix?
A syllable system, which when added to the beginning (prefix) or end of a word (suffix), changes its meaning entirely.
A ........ of thieves marched into the bank last night and stole $1 million.
What is the past participle in the following sentence:
The ball has been thrown to Tom.
Thrown.
Faster.
Positive, comparative or superlative?
Comparative.
I ______ more than an ______ on the horse.
Which pair of words has correct spelling to make the sentence meaningful?
rode, hour
What prefix would you add to the word 'play' to change the meaning to 'play again'.
re-
replay
Which of the following words are NOT a collective noun:
swarm, clump, raven, congregation, brood, band, host, smack
Raven
define 'participle'.
A participle is a form of a verb used as either an adjective (“the hidden treasure”) or a part of certain tenses (“we are hiding the treasure”).
What is the superlative for 'messy'?
Messiest.
Which word is a homophone of the word meat? (How is it spelled and what does it mean?)
meet - to come by chance into the presence of; to encounter.
What suffix would you add to a word to mean full of?
-ful
which of the following word groups shows collective nouns ONLY?
1. family, taxes, friends, geese, Falkland Islands
2. crew, couple, herd, staff, Congress
3. cousins, hears, pair, students, United States
2.
Base form - love.
Present participle - ?
Past Participle - ?
Present Participle - loving
Past Participle - loved
What is the comparative and superlative of 'beautiful'?
Superlative - most beautiful.
We could see (they’re, there, their) flag flying from the ship.
Which word should be used to make this sentence correct?
their
Name three possible prefixes.
Answers vary.
How many collective nouns are in the following list of words? Name them.
army, mule, cakes, cruelly, architect, murder, sweetly, shallow, freely, congregation, band, board, pack, book, birds, school, team, children, pride, trees, anthology.
10
Base form - Take
-s form - ?
Past form - ?
Present participle form - ?
Past participle form - ?
-s form - takes
Past form - took
Present participle form - taking
Past participle form - taken
The word is 'clever'.
Is this positive, comparative or superlative? What are the other two words?
Positive - clever
Comparative - cleverer
Superlative - Cleverest
(You're/ Your) my favourite teacher.
Which word should be used to make this sentence correct?
You're
Name three possible suffixes.
Answers vary.