Grammar and vocabulary, Year 7: more practice

quietly

提示It tells you how the dog slept.

为什么An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb. 'Quietly' describes how the dog slept.

Preposition

提示It links the cat to the bed and shows their positions.

为什么Prepositions show relationships of place, time or direction, and they come before a noun or pronoun.

pronoun

提示It works for a noun.

为什么Pronouns save repeating a noun, as in 'Zoe lost her key, so she looked for it'.

Compound

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

为什么Two main clauses are joined by the conjunction 'but', so the sentence is compound.

Although she was tired

提示It cannot stand alone as a sentence.

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

children's

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

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

the dogs' bones

提示Where does the apostrophe go after a plural ending in s?

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

pizzas

提示A plural doesn't show ownership or missing letters.

为什么Apostrophes show possession or missing letters, not plurals.

A

提示A question mark does the comma's job.

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

Start a new line

提示Each speaker gets their own place on the page.

为什么A new line for each speaker makes dialogue easy to follow.