Week 1 Parts of Speech and Parsing

Learning Intention:

Revise all the parts of speech learnt so far

(nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions) and how to identify them in a piece of writing (parsing).

Introduction

Use the learning app to revise the parts of speech

Main Learning

When you identify the different parts of speech in a sentence it is called parsing.

Many words can act as different parts of speech, depending on how they are being used.

It is best to identify nouns and verbs first when parsing a sentence

Try these

1 The boy greedily ate the last chocolate biscuit.

Grammar Sheet 1

Write inside each of the outlined words in the colour indicated.

Parse the sentences, and discuss your answers with a partner.