Precise word classes

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What is a noun?

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Name of a person, place, thing or idea that can take a determiner and can be singular or plural

Front

Which words are used to link words to other words and often show the relationship between them?

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Prepositions

Front

Pencil, boat, raspberry, mug, teddy - these are all examples of

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Concrete nouns

Front

Label 'more carefully' in the sentence: "He sat more carefully this time."

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Comparative adverb

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Subordinating conjunctions

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Links clauses where one is dependent on the other for its meaning

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Stative verbs

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Identify properties or show states of being, eg is, am, appear, seem

Front

What can an adjective modify?

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Nouns

Front

What can replace a noun?

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Pronoun

Front

What are words such as 'Sarah', 'Paris', 'Physics' and 'All Saints' called?

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Proper nouns

Front

What do we call words like: this, that, these, those?

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Demonstrative pronouns