Grammar Terminology

2. a clause at the start of a sentence to give details about how, where or when something is happening
4. the words ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’ before a noun.
9. a figure of speech comparing two things that introduced by like or as
11. the use of a present tense auxiliary verb and a past tense main verb (I have walked)
14. something has happened and uses a past tense verb of ‘to be’ and the progressive form of the verb, usually including –ing.
16. punctuation to show extra information i.e commas, dashes and brackets
17. a feeling, concept or idea
19. words that describe the name of a group
20. extra information put in between two pieces of parenthesis, usually starting with the pronouns: that, who, which, whose or whom.
22. the use of a past tense auxiliary verb and a past tense main verb (I had walked)
24. figurative language to show
25. a doing word
26. a person, place or thing

1. something has happened and uses a past tense verb of ‘to be’ and the progressive form of the verb, usually including –ing.
3. the single word past tense verb
5. a word to connect two main phrases
6. a group of letters that go in front of a root word to change its meaning
7. figurative language to show objects as if it had human features and characteristics.
8. the main part of a sentence containing a verb and a noun
10. a metaphoric phrase that has a particular meaning relating to it.
12. a word before a noun
13. a clause to give details about how, where or when something is happening
15. a group of letters that go after a root word to change its meaning
18. a group of words that cannot stand alone
21. a word that replaces the continuous use of a proper noun
23. a word the describes a verb or an adjective