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, Örebro

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 can’t count…

water meat ricehoney milk teabread 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

• It’s a grey cat

• There are happy students

• It’s a sad elephant

Adjectives can go after the verb be

noun verbadjective

• 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.