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Year 8 Grammar Revision
Year 8 Grammar Revision
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Grammar revision activity #english #year8 #grammar
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What is an '
abstract
noun'?
Names a collection of things or a group.
Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.
Names feelings or ideas.
2
What is a noun?
Doing words
Describing words
People's names
Naming words
3
"Her head was spinning from all the new information." Is an example of?
Descriptive language
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
4
The dance
was
a difficult one.
Action verb
Helping verb
Linking verb
5
When we talk about the 'tenor', of someone's speech we are talking about the...?
Voice
Tone
Number of words they use.
Vocabulary
6
What is an '
action
verb'?
Expresses the action that the subject is, was or will do.
Are the same as linking verbs.
Join with other words to form a verb phrase.
7
Which words are
verbs
? The young child quickly followed his parents into the room and sat down.
child, parents, room
Down, followed, sat.
Followed, sat.
young, quickly, child
8
"I move fast like a cheetah." Is an example of a?
Personification
Metaphor
Adjective
Simile
9
The armed robber
was running
away.
Action verb
Linking verb
Helping verb
10
What is a
pronoun
?
Another name for an adjective.
A word that describes a noun.
A word that adds onto a noun.
A word that replaces a noun.
11
What is a '
concrete
noun'?
Names a collection of things or a group.
Names feelings or ideas.
Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.
12
Which words are
nouns
? The young child quickly followed his parents into the room and sat down.
child, parents, room
the, child, sat.
young, quickly, child
Down, parents, followed.
13
What is an adjective?
Doing words
Naming words
Describing words
People's names
14
Which are
adverbs
? The young child quickly followed his parents into the room and sat down.
child, parents, room
Down, followed, sat.
quickly, down
Followed, sat.
15
A metaphor...?
Uses words "like" or "as" to compare two things.
Is a common phrase.
Is a question that doesn't need an answer.
Makes a connection between two things by comparing them.
16
A simile...?
Uses words "like" or "as" to compare two things.
Is a question that doesn't need an answer.
Makes a connection between two things by comparing them.
Is a common phrase.
17
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." Is an example of what technique?
Cliche
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
18
"The sky was full of dancing stars." Is an example of which language technique?
Adjective
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
19
What is a verb?
People's actions, such as running and jumping.
Naming words
Describing words
Doing words
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What is an '
adverb
'?
Gives extra information about verbs and adjectives.
A word that stands in place of a noun.
A naming word.
Another type of doing word (type of verb).
