An Amazing Grammar Audit
1. What are the 8 word classes?
Noun pronoun verb adverb adjective determiner preposition
conjunction/connective
2. What is a dynamic verb?
A physical action
3. What is a static verb?
A mental process
4. What is an auxiliary verb?
A verb to help another verb – to determine tense/emphasis/create
negatives/to construct questions.
5. Name the two types of auxiliary verbs.
Modal and primary
6. What is an abstract noun?
The name of an object that cannot be seen/touched/heard- an bodiless
entity.
7. Complete the table below:
1st Person
Singular
Subject
(personal
pronouns)
Object
(personal
pronouns)
I
Me
2nd Person
Plural
We
Us
Singular
3rd Person
Plural
Singular
Plural
You
You
He, She,
It
They
You
You
Him
Them
Her
It
Possessive
My,
Mine
Our,
Ours
Your
Yours
Your
Yours
His, Their
Hers Theirs
Its
8. How can teaching pronouns help pupils with the spelling of it’s/its?
You can tell them one is a pronoun – its- therefore if they can’t replace it
with a noun, it needs an apostrophe.
9. Change the following sentence so that it uses the passive voice:
A dog bit a man.
A man was bitten by a dog.
10.
What is the definite article? THE
11.
What is the difference between a determiner and a pronoun?
A determiner comes before a noun; a pronoun replaces a noun.
12.
Change this abstract noun into a static verb: thinking.
THOUGHT
13.
List 4 modal verbs.
Should / would / could / may / might/ ought ...
14.
Write your own sentence to mirror the word class pattern of this
sentence: the cat sat on the mat with a big smile on its face.
Any sentence with:
article/noun/verb/preposition/(article)/noun/preposition/(article)adject
ive/noun/preposition/pronoun/noun.
15.
What is a prefix? Morpheme added to the start of a word.
16.
What is a suffix? Morpheme added to the end of a word.
17.
What are the comparative and superlative forms of ‘thoughtful’?
More thoughtful/most thoughtful
18.
Write a conditional sentence.
Anything with ‘if’ in.
19.
What are the 3 primary verbs?
To have / to be / to do
20.
‘We was in the know.’ Using word level grammatical analysis,
explore the impact of this sentence used in a poem to ironically describe
the knowledge the Tommy’s had in ww1.
‘We’ is plural pronoun which suggests togetherness. This can reflect the
spirit of the men or ironically convey the private loneliness of war.
‘Was’ is a singular past tense form of ‘to be’. This is used incorrectly here
which has two effects.
Firstly, it contrasts with the plural ‘we’ to highlight the conflicts between
the experiences shared by the men as a collective body and the
individual horrors each man experienced.
In addition, in the context of the sentence, it is ironic. The writer is
saying he is in the know when in fact he isn’t knowledgeable enough to
use the correct words. This highlights the working class nature of the
typical Tommy.
Finally, the word ‘in’ comes in the middle of the sentence to highlight
that the knowledge was all around them; the knowledge that they were
going over the top was all they knew.
(Could analyse ‘the’ as definite- it was the only knowledge available to
them.)
21.
How can you use word-level terminology to develop your analysis
of this text:
Do you spend your days hoping, praying and wishing for a new car? TV?
Dishwasher? Do you spend your time going to restaurants, the cinema and
bowling?
Every day people like me spend their days hoping, praying and wishing for
peace, harmony and happiness. They spend their time searching for water,
food and clothing.
People like me are desperate. Please: help us.
Par 1 =static verbs/ concrete nouns.
Par 2= static verbs/abstract nouns and basic concrete nouns.
This highlights the lack of meaning in the first lifestyle and the materialism of it.
The abstract nouns suggest that the person only longs for peace of mind and we are more
inclined to want to provide that.
The concrete nouns in both paragraphs contrast dramatically highlighting how desperate
their situation is.