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What is a common noun?

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The name for a type of thing an object, animal etc. It does not have its own unique name so does not have a capital letter e.g horse, cat, cheese.

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What is a proper noun?

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A name of a specific person, place, day, month that has its own unique name and therefore has a capital letter at the start London, Steve, Wednesday.

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What is an abstract noun?

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The name of something that cannot be physically touched such as a feeling, concept e.g fear, trust, love.

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What is a collective noun?

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The name given to a group of particular object, animal, type of person e.g flock of birds, shoal of fish.

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What is a pronoun?

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A word used in the place of a noun e.g he, ,she, it.

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What is a verb?

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A word describing an action e.g to run, to eat

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What is an adjective?

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A word that describes a noun e.g beautiful.

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What is an adverb?

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A word that describes a verb and sometimes an adjective e.g he ran quickly, incredibly fast.

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What is a proposition?

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A word that shows where something is e.g under the table and sometimes happens e.g later we went out.

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What is an antonym?

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Opposites e.g happy and joyful

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What is a synonym?

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Same meaning e.g happy and joyful.

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What is a homophone?

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Are words that sound the same but spelled differently and mean different things.

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What is a conjunction?

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A word that joins 2 different clauses together in a sentence.

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What is a simile?

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Describes something by comparing it to something else with which it shares characteristics eg. he was tall like a giant.

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What a metaphor?

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A metaphor describes something as being something else with which it shares characteristics e.g moon’s beams were a road down on Earth.

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What is an onomatopoeia?

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A word that sounds like the sound it represents e.g bang.

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What is assonance?

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An assonance is a repeated vowel sound within a series of words e.g the boutler rolled slowly along the ground.

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What is allieration

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Repeated initial sound in the words in a sentence e.g slithering snakes.

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What is personification?

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Is describing an inanimate object as having human creatures/behaviours.

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What is blending and how does it help pupils?

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Blending allows children to read words. Children look at the letters of a word on the page and link them to the phonemes/sounds they can blend those sounds together to be able to say the word.

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What is segmenting?

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Segmenting is when a child wants to spell or write a word they spilt the word up into its different sounds. They can them identify which grapheme represents each sound and write them down to spell the word.

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What does B.O.Y.S mean?

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1) She was happily playing a game, but got upset when she lost.
But, Or, Yet and So

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What does 2Ad mean?

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2 Adjectives
Mr Twit was a dirty, horrible man with long soppy spaghetti in his beard.
A 2AD sentence has two adjectives before the first noun and two adjectives before the second noun. This creates a clear picture for the noun.

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What is 2 pairs?

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Begins with 2 pairs of related adjectives. Each pair is followed by a comma and separated by and.

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What does De:De mean?

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I was exhausted: I haven’t slept for more than two days.
De:De is description:detail is a compound sentence in which 2 independent clauses are separated by a colon. The second adds further detail.

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What is a verb, person?

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A sentence starts with a verb to give it more importance. The verb is always followed by a comma and then a name or personal pronoun (he, she, they, it) followed the rest of the sentence.
Running, Sarah almost tripped over her feet.

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What is a O.(I)?

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They are outside:inside sentences. They are made up of two related sentences. The first sentence tells the reader a character’s outward action and the second revels their true feelings.

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If, if, if, then meaning?

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Summarising a dramatic plot (key plots) at beginning or end of a story in groups of 3. The emphasis is on using a comma after each clause.
E.g - If the alarm hadn’t gone off, if the bus had been on time, if the road repairs had been completed, then his life would not have not have been destroyed.

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What are emotion words?

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Desperate, she screamed for help. Terrified, he froze instantly to the spot. Happily, she skipped along the gravely path. Emotion first followed by the actions that are caused by the emotion. Putting the word first gives more weight to the emotion. When teaching produce an A-Z list of emotions the children could use Afraid, Brave etc.

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What is a noun, which, who, where?

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  1. Snakes, WHICH scare me, are not always poisonous.
  2. My pet dog, WHO only has three legs, loves to chase seagulls.
  3. The deserted beach, WHERE the shipwreck was found, can only be reached by sea.
    Use commas to embed a clause in a sentence, add information that links with the sentence topic and start the clause with which, who or where.
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What is a Ad, same ad

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  1. He was a fast runner, fast because he needed to be.
  2. It was a cold planet, cold due to the distance from the sun.
    Some adjectives used twice. The second adjective repeated straight after a comma.
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3 bad - (dash) question?

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Cold, dark, airlessness - which would kill the spaceman first?
3 negative adjectives followed by a dash then a question which relates to the 3 adjectives.

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3 bad - (dash) question?

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Cold, dark, airlessness - which would kill the spaceman first?
3 negative adjectives followed by a dash then a question which relates to the 3 adjectives.

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What is a double ly ending?

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She sang soulfully and emotionally. They laughed loudly and shrilly. He exercised vigorously and enthusiastically.
Sentence must end on 2 adverbs which add detail to, and describe how the verb within the sentence is being carried out.

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What are all the Ws?

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Would there ever be another opportunity like this one? What if you had all the money in the world? Why do zebras have stripes?
Short sentence must start with 1 of the following w words: who? what? where? why? would? was? will? what if?

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What is a list sentence?

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It was a dark, long, leafy lane.

A list sentence must have 3 or 4 adjectives before the noun use and between the final 2 adjectives.

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What is some; other sentences?

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Some people love football; others just can’t stand it. Some days are full of enjoyment; others begin and end terribly.
Some, other sentences are compound sentences which begin with the word some snd have a semi - colon to replace the word but.

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What is the meaning of P.C?

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NEITHER money NOR gifts could make him visit the haunted mansion again.
It was BOTH cold AND unpleasant for him to work there.
P.C paired conjunctions when some words need second word in order to make sense.

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What is The more, the more?

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The more angry he became, the more he hammered his fist on the plate.

More - emotion
Comma
More
Hammered - action related to emotion

Sentence type is particularly useful when developing character trait in a story. The first more should be followed by an emotive word and the second more should be followed by a related action.

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What is short?

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Everything failed! The ship exploded! Rule 1-3 word sentences possibly with exclamation mark.

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What is personification of weather?

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The wind stroked the space shuttle gently before lift off = caring normal was beaten by the hail = attacked/aggressive.
A type of weather; wind, rain, sun, hail etc …is given a human a mood.

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What is …..ing, …….ed

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Dancing in the studio, she watched in the mirror as a ghost appeared. Skipping along the street, he stopped abruptly when a car screeched past.
Sentence must begin with a verb ending in “ing” followed by a location of the action.

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What is irony?

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Our “luxury” hotel turned out to be a farm outbuilding. With dawn breaking, the “beautiful view” which the brochure described, revealed itself to be a scrap - yard and a rubbish tip. The “tip our dream” was, in fact , our worst nightmare.
Irony sentence deliberately overstates how good or bad something is. The overstated word is shown to be false through the remainder of the sentence which reveals the truth.

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What is the imagine 3?

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Imagine a place where the sun always shines, where wars never happen, where no - one ever dies: in the Andromeda 5 system, there is such a planet.
Sentence begins with the word imagine. Then describe three parts of something. The first 2 parts are separated by commas. The third ends with a colon.

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