Grammatical Terms

Question 1

What does ‘alliteration’ mean?

Give a sentence with an example of alliteration in it.

Answer 1

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Question 2

What does ‘onamatopeia’ mean?

Give a sentence with an example of onamatopeia in it.

Answer 2

It is a word that imitates the sound

‘The snow crunched underfoot’.

Question 3

What does ‘rhyme’ mean?

Give a sentence with an example in it.

Answer 3

Where words have the same sounds

The lion roared and the bird soared.

Question 4

What is a ‘simile’?

Give an example in a sentence.

Answer 4

A simile is a way of describing something by comparing it to something else. Usually uses ‘as’ or ‘like’.

E.g. The stars shone like a thousand diamonds’.

Question 5

What is a metaphor?

Give a sentence with an example of a metaphor in it.

Answer 5

A way of describing something by saying it is something else.
E.g. My legs were filled with lead.

Question 6

What does ‘paraphrase’ mean?

Answer 6

To reduce a sentence

Question 7

What is the definition of a homophone?

Give 5 examples of different pairs of homophones.

Answer 7

Words that sound the same but have different meanings.

Hair/hare
Through/threw

Question 8

What is the definition of a homograph?

Give examples of 5 homographs.

Answer 8

Words that are spelt the same but have different meanings.

Play. I want to play./ I saw a play.

Question 9

What is an adjective?

Give 5 examples.

Answer 9

A describing word

red flowers
Frosty morning

Question 10

What is an adverb?

Give 5 examples.

Answer 10

A word that describes a verb. It often ends in the suffis -ly.

He ran quickly.

Question 11

What is an Antonym?

Answer 11

A word that has the opposite meaning to another word

E.g. Good/ bad

Question 12

What is a ‘connective’?

Give some examples of typical words used as connectives.

Answer 12

A connective is a word that joins 2 clauses or sentences.

E.g. But, and, therefore, however.

Question 13

What are consonants?

Answer 13

The 21 letters of the alphabet that aren’t vowels

Question 14

What is the difference between a work of ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’?

Answer 14

Fiction is text that has been made up by the author, about imaginary people and events.

Non-fiction is text that is about real people and events.

Question 15

What is a prefix?

Give some examples of prefixes and their meanings.

Answer 15

A prefix is a string of letters that can be put in front of a word to change its meaning.

E.g. ‘Un’ (to undo something)
‘Dis’

Question 16

What is a suffix?

Answer 16

A suffix is a string of letters that are added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

Question 17

What is a Pronoun?

Give all the examples.

Answer 17

A pronoun is a word that can be used instead of a noun.
E.g. 
I, me
You
He, she, it,
We, they

Question 18

What is a verb?

Give some examples.

Answer 18

A verb is a doing or action word. Or a being word.

E.g play, went

Rember ‘to be’ is a verb so am, are, is,

Question 19

What does ‘Personification’ mean?

Give an example in a sentence.

Answer 19

A way of describing something by giving it human feelings and characteristics.

‘The cruel wind plucked remorselessly at my threadbare clothes’

Question 20

What is a noun?

Give some examples

Answer 20

A naming word i.e. Place, object, person

A tree, a dog, Peter

Question 21

What is a preposition?

Give an example

Answer 21

A word that shows position

Under, on

Question 22

What is a conjunction?

Give 3 examples

Answer 22

A joining word that links clauses in a sentence

But, and, because

Question 23

What is the infinitive?

Give 2 examples

Answer 23

It is the basic form of a verb, usually has ‘to’ before it

To eat, to play

Question 24

What is a superlative?????

Give an example

Answer 24

An adjective describing the Biggest or largest of something.
Usually ends in -est.

For describing more than 2 objects

Question 25

What is a comparative?

Give an example of a comparative sentence

Answer 25

Adjective Comparing 2 objects, usually ends in -er

Sam is shorter than Oliver W.

Question 26

Why would you use a dash instead of a colon?

Answer 26

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Question 27

Give an example of a noun phrase

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Question 28

Give an example of a prepositional phrase?

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Question 29

Give an example of a subordinate clause?

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Question 30

What is a ‘determiner’? Give some examples.

Answer 30

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