Newton International School

West Bay
Unit Organiser

Year 5

SPaG

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 Term Definition
Adjective Part of speech that typically describes a
noun
e.g: "It was a big dog."
Noun part of speech that names a person,
place, thing, quality, quantity or concept
e.g: "The man is waiting", "I was born in
London", "Is that your car?", "Do you like
music?"
Expanded noun phrase An expanded noun phrase is a phrase
that consists of a noun and one or more
words that modify or describe it

A sea-ravaged, pirate ship in the vast,

empty ocean could be glimpsed from the
distance.
Possessive pronoun Pronoun that indicates ownership or
possession
e.g: "Where is mine?", "These are
yours"
Adverb word that modifies a verb, an adjective or
another adverb
e.g: quickly, really, very
Adverbs of possibility Shows the likelihood of something
happening
e.g: Definitely, probably, certainly, surely,
possibly, obviously
Fronted adverbial Dependent clause that acts like an adverb
and indicates such things as time, place
or reason
e.g: Although we are getting older, we
grow more beautiful each day.
Countable noun thing that you can count, such as apple,
pen, tree
e.g: one apple, three pens, ten trees
Uncountable nouns thing that you cannot count, such as
substances or concepts;
e.g: water, furniture, music
Relative clause Rrelative clause that contains information
required for the understanding of the
sentence.
e.g: "The boy who was wearing a blue
shirt was the winner"
Relative pronoun pronoun that starts a relative clause; there
are five in English: who, whom, whose,
which, that; see also relative adverb
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Main clause Group of words that expresses a
complete thought and can stand alone as
a sentence
e.g: "Tara is eating curry.", "Tara likes
oranges and Joe likes apples."
Subordinate clause Part of a sentence that contains a subject
and a verb but does not form a complete
thought and cannot stand on its own; see
also independent clause
e.g: "When the water came out of the
tap..."
Determiner Word such as an article or a possessive
adjective or other adjective that typically
comes at the beginning of noun phrases
e.g: "It was an excellent film", "Do you
like my new shirt?", "Let's buy some
eggs"
Article determiner that introduces a noun phrase
as definite (the) or indefinite (a/an)
Personification Personification is a figurative language
technique where a non-human thing, like
another animal or an object, is given
human traits or characteristics in a
description.

The wind danced through the blades of

grass.

Alliteration Alliteration is when two or more words

that start with the same sound are used
repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence. The
repeated sound creates alliteration, not
the same letter.

 Clary closed her cluttered

clothes closet.

Possessive determiner adjective based on a pronoun: my, your,

his, her, its, our, their
e.g: "I lost my keys", "She likes your car"
Quantifier determiner or pronoun that indicates
quantity
e.g: some, many, all
Direct speech Saying what someone said by using their
exact words
e.g: "Lucy said: “I am tired."
Modal verb Shows degree of possibility can, could,
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 must, should
e.g: "I should go for a jog"
Prefix Occurs before the root or stem of a word
e.g: impossible, reload
Suffix Occurs after the root or stem of a word
e.g: happiness, quickly
Punctuation standard marks such as commas, periods
and question marks within a sentence
e.g: , . ? ! - ; :

Command: Go to your room now!

Statement: I like your hair today.
Exclamation: I love your new puppy!
Question: Did you have chicken for
dinner?
Apostrophe Shows a contraction of two words in a
sentence.
e.g: It’s just not fair. √
The cat pounced on its toys. X
Standard English (S.E.) "normal" spelling, pronunciation and
grammar that is used by educated native
speakers of English
e.g: She had her lunch at 10 o’clock.

Non-standard English would use the

incorrect verb agreement
e.g: Last Tuesday we was going to the
the shops.
Homophones Words that sound the same but are spelt
differently.
e.g: draught/draft
whose/ who’s
Heard/herd
Desert/dessert

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