Grade 5 Grammar

Adjectives
Describing words: how something looks, feels or sounds.

Conjunction
Joining words such as and, but and because.

Direct and Indirect Speech
Turning what someone said into reported speech.

Nouns
Naming words for people, places and things, common and proper.

Prepositions
Words that show where something is: in, on, under, beside.

Question Words
Who, what, where, when, why and how: asking and answering.

Tenses
Past, present and future: changing the verb to match the time.

Verbs
Doing words, and how they change with the subject and the tense.

Articles
Choosing between a, an and the.