Grammar Review

Year 6
 Nouns are words for:
People: a sister, a friend

Animals: a dog, a horse

Things: a pencil, an apple

Places: London, rebro

 You can count most nouns
One (singular)
A banana
An orange

Two or more (plural)

Three bananas
Two boys
 BEWARE
There are some nouns you cant count

water meat rice

honey milk tea
bread cheese juice
 To make plurals add s to most nouns

a dog two dogs

a cat three cats

a boy four boys

a girl five girls

 Add es to nouns ending in

-o a potato -- two potatoes

-x a fox -- foxes

-s a dress -- three dresses

-sh a toothbrush - two toothbrushes

-ch a watch -- six watches

 If nouns ends in a consonant + y

Change y to i and add es

A baby two babies

The lady the ladies
A dictionary dictionaries
 BE CAREFUL!!!!!
A person two people

The child the children

My tooth my teeth

A man five men

My foot my feet
 Adjectives
Tell you more about nouns:

red, small, interesting, dangerous, clever,

nice, yellow, big, sad, heavy, happy
 Adjectives can go before a noun
Its a grey cat

There are happy students

Its a sad elephant

 Adjectives can go after the verb be

noun verb adjective

The mouse is big

Our teacher is nice
The dogs are dirty
The students are hungry
 Be is to talk about yourself and other
people, animals or things:
I am a girl

You are a boy

She is a teacher

We are friends

They are dancers

Source Grammar Lab, Book 1, Kenna Bourke, OUP 2003.