word or words that can tell the reader where, when or why something is happening

Prepositions

English

Determiners: articles and possessive pronouns

Fronted adverbials: single words and phrases

Fronted adverbials: phrases and clauses

Synonyms and antonyms

In this unit, pupils stretch their understanding of noun, adjective, verb and adverbs word classes to incorporate more advanced word classes. In 'Key grammar terminology', pupils will build and apply to sentence contexts their understanding of determiners and fronted adverbials.  

In 'Word class', pupils learnt to identify and use the four main word classes in English: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. In this unit, pupils will stretch their understanding of word class to incorporate more advanced word classes.

In this unit, pupils learn and review a number of grammatical terms: determiner, article, possessive pronoun, preposition, phrase, clause, fronted adverbial, clause, phrase, synonym, antonym, etymology and word family. Critically, they learn that any fronted adverbial is followed by a comma.

Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials

If a group of words contains a verb, what do we call it?

In this sentence, which word is the preposition? 'Sam walked into the empty classroom.'

In this sentence, which words are the preposition phrase? 'Sam walked into the empty classroom.'

Which preposition best completes this sentence? 'When the maths lesson was over, we ran out __________ the sun.'

What is the preposition phrase in this sentence? 'The moon, which was high in the night sky, was a perfect circle.'

Which of the following lists shows articles we can use as determiners?

Which of the following lists shows possessive pronouns we can use as determiners?

Which word in this sentence is a possessive pronoun? 'We went to our local shops.'

Which is the correct article to use in this sentence? '__________ unknown animal has been stealing our food.'

In this sentence, what kind of determiner is used? 'We walked into the cinema and bought a ticket each.'

Starter Quiz

What is the purpose of a determiner?