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Year 6 · English · SATs grammar and writing revision · Lesson 1

Word classes and terminology

SATs grammar revision: word classes including modal verbs, determiners, relative pronouns, preposition vs conjunction, and changing word classes with suffixes.

Whiteboard video lesson: Word classes and terminology

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Identify all word classes
  • Tell prepositions from conjunctions
  • Identify modal verbs and determiners
  • Change word classes with suffixes

The method

  1. Read it.
  2. Its job?
  3. What follows?
  4. Name it.

Key words: word class, modal verb, determiner, preposition, conjunction.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Word class of ‘happiness’?

  1. Step 1: -ness

Answer: noun (abstract)

Question 2

Word class of ‘they’?

  1. Step 1: Replaces

Answer: pronoun

Question 3

Word class of ‘beneath’?

  1. Step 1: Position

Answer: preposition