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Oak homework, due in by Tuesday 29th January.
Read the extract from Prince Cinders. Use it to answer these questions.
Warm up questions
1. Which words tell you that Prince Cinders is not good looking?
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2. How many brothers does Prince Cinders have?
3. Where do his brothers go and what do they do there?
HARDER QUESTIONS
4. Using evidence from this extract, what makes you think that Prince Cinders is not happy?
5. Which word or phrase reveals that the author:
a. Does not rate Prince Cinders highly?
b. Feels sorry for him?
6. Look at the 1st 2 sentences. What do you think the author believes a Prince should be like?
7. Cinderella had 2 stepsisters. Why do you think the author chose to give Prince Cinders 3 big brothers?
Last week we looked at collective nouns. This week we look at pronouns and common/proper nouns.
8. Find 3 examples of common nouns. (Remember, they will be used to identify a person, place or thing and
will NOT begin with a capital letter - unless they are the 1st word in the sentence.)
9. Find 3 examples of proper nouns. (Remember, they will be the name of a specific person, place or thing
and will begin with a capital letter.)
10. Find 2 examples of pronouns. For each pronoun, write the pronoun and the noun to which it refers.
E.g. Pronoun = she, refers to fairy.
(Remember, pronouns will be used instead of a noun which has already been mentioned.)
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Level 6 questions – have a go if you can!!
For each of these, expand the noun into a noun phrase by adding words before and after the noun. One has been
done for you.
Noun
the book
the cat
the garden
the car
the man
Noun phrase
the reference book on the bookshelf
An abstract noun refers to an idea rather than a tangible object, e.g. peace, happiness.
A possessive pronoun shows ownership, e.g. his, yours.
Write a sentence containing each of these word classes and underline the word indicated.
Collective noun
Abstract noun
Possessive pronoun
Proper noun
Common noun