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Grammar Spotter

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Every word in a sentence has a job. Knowing those jobs is what grammar questions test. Here are the five you need.

🏔️NOUN
A person, place or thing.
The mountain trembled.
⚡VERB
An action or state of being.
She sprinted to the door.
🎨ADJECTIVE
A word that describes a noun.
The ancient map was torn.
🚀ADVERB
Modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.
He spoke extremely quietly.
👤PRONOUN
Replaces a noun (I, she, they, it…).
She found it in the bag.
Introduction

Five classes, one rule each

In the 11+ exam you need to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns quickly. The key question for each: what job is this word doing in the sentence?