English

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.

Question 2

What is a common noun

Answer 2

Something you can see and touch eg River

Question 3

What is a proper noun

Answer 3

Name of people, places, events

Question 4

Collective nouns

Answer 4

• Groups of people or animals
• eg Flock of sheep

Question 5

What is an abstract nouns?

Answer 5

• These nouns things you can’t touch feelings, ideas, concepts, or emotions
• Examples: love, courage, happiness.

Question 6

What is a pronoun?

Answer 6

A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.
To avoid repetition or to make sentences simpler

Question 7

Give example of personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative pronouns

Answer 7

• Personal: He them
• Possessive: Mine Yours
• Demonstrative: This
• Interrogative: Who

Question 8

What is an adjective?

Answer 8

• It is a descibing word - it descibes nouns
• eg blue scary

Question 9

What is a verb?

Answer 9

Doing, being and behaving word

Question 10

What is a compound noun?

Answer 10

• These nouns are formed by combining two or more words to create a single noun.
• Examples: skateboard, sunshine, basketball.

Question 11

What is a Simile:

Answer 11

• A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
• Example: “Her smile was as bright as the sun.”

Question 12

What is a Metaphor?

Answer 12

• A direct comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
• Example: “Time is a thief.”

Question 13

What is Personification?

Answer 13

• Giving human characteristics to non-human entities.
• Example: “The trees whispered in the wind.”

Question 14

What is Hyperbole?

Answer 14

• Exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
• Example: “I’ve told you a million times!”

Question 15

What is Onomatopoeia:

Answer 15

• Words that imitate sounds.
• Example: “The bees buzzed around the hive.”

Question 16

What is Alliteration:

Answer 16

• The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
• Example: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

Question 17

What is Assonance:

Answer 17

• The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.
• Example: “The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.”

Question 18

What is Irony:

Answer 18

• A contrast between expectation and reality.
• Example: “The fire station burned down.”

Question 19

What is an adverb

Answer 19

• A word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb / often end in -ly
• Adverbs often answer questions such as how, when, where, why, to what extent, or in what manner.

Question 20

What is a finite verb

Answer 20

• A finite verb is a verb that changes its form based on who’s doing the action (like “I sing” vs. “he sings”)
• It’s a flexible verb that fits with the rest of the sentence.

Question 21

What is required to make a COMPLETE sentence?

Answer 21

Contain a subject
Contain a finite verb
Present a complete thought

Question 22

What is a non-finite verb?

Answer 22

• Non-finite verbs don’t change their form to match the subject or tense of the sentence.
• They are often used as complements, in phrases, or to indicate continuous action.
• Verbs that end in “-ing” (like “walking” or “singing”).
• Preceded by “to”.Verbs that come after the word “to” (like “to walk” or “to sing”).

Question 23

What is a conjunction?

Answer 23

• They combine words, phrases and clauses.
• Coordinating conjunctions: “and,” “but,” “or,” “nor,” “for,” “so,” and “yet.”
• Subordinating Conjunctions: connect an independent clause with a dependent clause eg “After the rain stopped, we went outside to play.”

Question 24

Active vs Passive Voice

Answer 24

In active - the subject is active and doing something,
In passive- the subject is having something done to it.

Active Voice
“The cat chased the mouse.”
In this sentence, “the cat” (the subject) is performing the action of “chasing” (the verb) on “the mouse” (the object).

Passive Voice:
“The mouse was chased by the cat.”
Here, “the mouse” (the subject) is receiving the action of “being chased” (the passive verb) by “the cat” (the agent).

Question 25

How can you tell if a word is a noun

Answer 25

It has an A or AN or THE in front. (an article)
Name, Place, Thing

Question 26

When you add -ly to a word what do you form?

Answer 26

Adverb

Question 27

What is a compound sentence

Answer 27

It has two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction
“Sarah was feeling scared and there were spooky noises”

Question 28

Give examples of Subordinate conjunctions

Answer 28

Although
because
even though
despite
when

Question 29

What do adjectives do

Answer 29

Add detail to a noun

Question 30

GIve examle of quantitative adjectives

Answer 30

They indicate any number or any quantity of countable or uncountable nouns

Eg first five and all

Question 31

What is a comparative adjective?

Answer 31

A word that describes nouns is by comparing them to something else - they usuually end in -er

Question 32

What is superlative adjective?

Answer 32

• Examples biggest and fastest
• It mean something is the best or highest of its kind, surpasses all others, or is excellent
• They normally end in -est

Question 33

What are the 4 main reasons to start a paragraph?

Answer 33

Time
Idea
Place
Speaker

Question 34

What is a compound sentence made up of? (Definition and example)

Answer 34

Two or more independent clause joined by coordinating conjunctions such as and, but, or so.

( Joe dropped his phone AND it broke)

Question 35

What is a complex sentence made up of? (Definition and example)

Answer 35

Uses a dependant or subordinate clause to add extra detail into the sentence. (Often includes because and when)

E.g Joe was sad because the screen of his phone smashed when he dropped it.