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What is a common noun

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Something you can see and touch eg River

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What is a proper noun

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Name of people, places, events

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Collective nouns

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  • Groups of people or animals
  • eg Flock of sheep
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Abstract nouns

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  • Names of feelings and ideas
  • Dream, hunger sympathy
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What is a noun?

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

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What is a pronoun?

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

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Give example of personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative pronouns

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  • Personal: He them
  • Possessive: Mine Yours
  • Demonstrative: This
  • Interrogative: Who
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What is an adjective?

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

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Doing, being and behaving word

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What is an abstract nouns?

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  • These nouns represent ideas, concepts, or emotions
  • Examples: love, courage, happiness.
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What is a compound noun?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • 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.
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What is a finite verb

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  • 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.
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What is required to make a COMPLETE sentence?

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Contain a subject
Contain a finite verb
Present a complete thought

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What is a non-finite verb?

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  • 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”).
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What is a conjunction?

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  • 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.”
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Active vs Passive Voice

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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).

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How can you tell if a word is a noun

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

27
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When you add -ly to a word what do you form?

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Adverb

28
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When was the Romantic Era

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1790 - 1830 (18th to 19th century)

29
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What Era was Charles Dickens

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Victorian 19th Century

30
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What era was Shakespeare?

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Renaissance 14th - 17th Century

31
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When did post modernism begin?

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1945

32
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What era were Wordsworth and Keats

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Romantic
1798 -1837
Early 19th Century

33
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What era were Dickens, Eliot, Hardy

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Victorian

34
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What is a complex sentence

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They use a subordinate clause to add extra detail.

“Sarah was feeling scared because there were spooky noises”

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What is a simple sentence

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It has just one main verb and a subject

E.g Ben dropped his phone.

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What is a compound sentence

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

37
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Give examples of Subordinate conjunctions

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Although
because
even though
despite
when

38
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What do adjectives do

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Add detail to a noun

39
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GIve examle of quantitative adjectives

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

Eg first five and all

40
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What is a comparative adjective?

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

41
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What is superlative adjective?

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  • 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
42
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What are the 4 main reasons to start a paragraph?

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Time
Idea
Place
Speaker

43
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Desirable
Desireable

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Desirable

44
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What is a compound sentence made up of? (Definition and example)

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

( Joe dropped his phone AND it broke)

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

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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.

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