Word functions

Nouns

• Nouns are naming words
• They name people and places e.g George, Sally, Bristol, Venezuela 
• They name objects, materials and animals e.g pen, carpet, sugar, oxygen, dog
• They name ideas, feelings and qualities e.g education, beauty, anger, happiness, intelligence

Verbs

• Verbs are often called 'doing words'
• Most verbs refer to actions or events e.g run, read, drink, drink, dance, describe, analyse
• Many refer to states, mental processes or sensations e.g sleep, think, believe, love

Adjectives

• Describing words that modify the noun

Adverbs

• They tell us how an action is done, they modify the verb, quickly, effortlessly, elegantly
• They may give us information about the time of an action e.g yesterday, often, rarely

Pronoun

• Stands in the place of a noun
• Use them to avoid repeating a noun over and over again
• Personal pronouns include: I, me, you, we, they, them, ours, their etc
• Other pronouns include: it, this, that 

Prepositions

• A preposition is placed in front of something- a noun 
• It links the noun into the rest of the sentence, showing the relationship between the noun and the sentence

Determiners

• Help determine the noun you're talking about
• E.g when we are talking about dog.... Do we mean a dog, the dog, my dog, this dog 
• The words in italics are determiners

Conjunctions 

• They join things together
• Co-ordinating conjunctions join two things (nouns, adjectives, sentences) so we see them as equal e.g and, but, or
• Subordinating conjunctions join sentences (or clauses) to show a relationship between them, if, because, when, although 

Auxiliaries 

• They are little verbs, which are used alongside other verbs for grammatical reasons
• E.g she was writing a novel
• I don't like that film
• We might go back tomorrow
• The main auxiliary verbs are do/does/did, have/had/had, be/am/are/were