Grammar and vocabulary, Year 7: more practice

quietly

HintIt tells you how the dog slept.

The whyAn adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb. 'Quietly' describes how the dog slept.

Preposition

HintIt links the cat to the bed and shows their positions.

The whyPrepositions show relationships of place, time or direction, and they come before a noun or pronoun.

pronoun

HintIt works for a noun.

The whyPronouns save repeating a noun, as in 'Zoe lost her key, so she looked for it'.

Compound

HintWhat joins the two halves, and could each half stand alone?

The whyTwo main clauses are joined by the conjunction 'but', so the sentence is compound.

Although she was tired

HintIt cannot stand alone as a sentence.

The why'Although she was tired' depends on the main clause 'Mia finished her homework' to make full sense.

children's

HintThis irregular plural does not end in s, so treat it like a singular.

The why'Children' is already plural, so ownership adds 's. The toys belong to the children.

the dogs' bones

HintWhere does the apostrophe go after a plural ending in s?

The whyThe apostrophe follows the s of a regular plural: the dogs' bones. 'The dog's bones' would mean a single dog.

pizzas

HintA plural doesn't show ownership or missing letters.

The whyApostrophes show possession or missing letters, not plurals.

A

HintA question mark does the comma's job.

The whyThe question mark stays inside the inverted commas, and no comma is added.

Start a new line

HintEach speaker gets their own place on the page.

The whyA new line for each speaker makes dialogue easy to follow.