SPaG

Question 1

Proper Noun

Answer 1

This is a noun used to name particular people and places.

Question 2

Common Noun

Answer 2

A common noun is a noun that is used to name everyday things.

Question 3

Collective Noun

Answer 3

This is a noun that describes a group or collection of people or things.

Question 4

Abstract Noun

Answer 4

An abstract noun describes things that cannot actually be seen, heard, smelt, felt or tasted.

Question 5

Adjectives

Answer 5

An adjective is a ‘describing’ word.

Question 6

Verbs

Answer 6

A verb is a word, or a group of words, that tells you what a person or thing is being or doing.

Question 7

Imperative Verb

Answer 7

Known as bossy verbs as they tell people what to do e.g close the door, empty the bin…

Question 8

Auxillary Verb

Answer 8

An auxiliary verb is used with a main verb to help express the main verb’s tense, mood, or voice.
Auxiliary verbs for ‘to be’ include: am, are, is, was, were,
Auxiliary verbs for ‘to have’ include: have, had, hasn’t, has, will have, will not have.

Question 9

Adverb

Answer 9

An adverb tells you more about the verb.

Question 10

Singular pronouns

Answer 10

used to refer to one person or thing.

Question 11

Plural pronouns

Answer 11

used to refer to more than one person or thing.

Question 12

Preposition

Answer 12

Prepositions are words which show the relationship of one thing to another.

Question 13

Articles

Answer 13

An article is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are three articles: a, an and the.

Question 14

Connectives

Answer 14

Connectives (conjunctions) join together words, phrases, clauses and sentences.

Question 15

Subordinating connectives

Answer 15

Subordinating connectives link a main (independent) clause with a subordinate (dependent) clause (a clause which does not make sense on its own).

Question 16

Hyperbole

Answer 16

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Question 17

Idioms

Answer 17

An idiom is a saying that has both a literal meaning (exact) and a figurative (understood) meaning

Question 18

Similie

Answer 18

A similie is a figure of speech that compares two different things in an interesting way using the word “like” or “as.”

Question 19

Metaphor

Answer 19

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as.

Question 20

Oxymoron

Answer 20

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.”