Literacy

Identify the proper noun in the following sentence:

'Edinburgh is a great place to visit.'

Answer explanation

Proper nouns are specific places, people or things. They always begin with capital letter.

Which of these is an example of an abstract noun?

• Paris

• Love

• Table

• Steven

Which of these best describes an adjective?

• A word used to modify a noun: large, small, blue.

• A word for a specific person, place or thing: Paris, Pepsi, Laura.

• A word to describe an action: jump, dance, run.

• A word to modify a verb: quickly, slowly, carefully.

Identify a conjunction in the following sentence:

'I like cooking and eating, but I don’t like washing dishes afterward'

'quickly' is an example of what type of word?

• Verb

• Noun

• Adverb

• Adjective

Write down the independent clause in the following sentence:

'Before opening the door, I took a deep breath.'

Retype this sentence and insert capital letters:

'as the train pulled out of waverley station michael opened his new book, great expectations by charles dickens.'

Which of these words is a pronoun?

• They

• Gordon

• big

• table

Which of these best describes a verb.

• Words which help to describe a person or thing.

• Words for people, places or things.

• Words which describe how an action is performed.

• Words for an action.

Write down the verb in this sentence:

'John kissed his grandmother'