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Word Classes

English · Year 1–Year 6

Tap the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in a sentence.

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About the word classes

A sentence on the board and the four word classes on the toolbar. Pick nouns and tap the words in the sentence that are nouns, then press Check: the ones found go green, the ones missed go grey and anything claimed wrongly goes red. Pick verbs and the same sentence asks a new question.

One class at a time, because that is how it is asked in a lesson. Work through all four on the same sentence and it ends up colour coded, which is a good way to finish rather than a good way to start.

What a word IS depends on the sentence it is in, and that is the thing this gets across. "I run to school" and "I go for a run" are both in the bank, and run is a verb in one and a noun in the other. A pile of loose words sorted into columns cannot say that, which is why the sentence is on the board.

Nineteen sentences, easiest first, from "The cat sat on the mat" to abstract nouns like kindness and happiness, where "a noun is a thing you can touch" runs out. Determiners, pronouns and prepositions are left alone: they are not on the toolbar, so tapping the or she as a noun is marked wrong and is worth talking about when it happens.

How to use it on your whiteboard

  1. 1Pick a word class on the toolbar: noun, verb, adjective or adverb.
  2. 2Tap the words in the sentence that are one. Tap again to take a label off.
  3. 3Press Check to mark them. Green is right, red is wrong, grey is one that was missed.
  4. 4Pick another class and ask the same sentence again, or press Next for a new one.
  5. 5Press Clear to take every label off. Tap Fullscreen to fill the board.

Questions

Which word classes does it cover?
Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Determiners, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions are in the sentences but are not asked about, so a class can be told what they are without having to label them.
Why one class at a time?
Because that is the question a lesson asks: find the verbs in this sentence. Check marks the class being hunted, so a class working on adverbs is not told off for the nouns they have not done yet.
Can the same word be two different classes?
Yes, and there are pairs of sentences in the bank for exactly that. Run is a verb in "I run to school" and a noun in "I go for a run". Word class depends on the job a word is doing in the sentence.
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