1. Language Awareness
Year 9 English

2. Parts of Speech

3. ‘Ouch!’ Timothy exclaimed unhappily. ‘That
enormous dog went to lick me but when I
turned to go it jumped on my back!”
Copy out the passage; identify the parts of speech that have
been underlined.
Parts of Speech: Parsing

4. the girl he loves knows nobody
How many sentences can you make?
Subject-Verb Order

5. Subject + Verb (+ Object)
What is the difference between a SUBJECT
and an OBJECT?
YODA SPEECH!
YODA GENERATOR!
What do you remember about the
order of sentences?

6.  Common nouns – cat, table (don’t begin with a
capital letter)
 Proper Nouns – Hong Kong, Mrs Conway, (begin
with capital letter)
 Abstract Nouns – honour, love, Jealousy (names
for abstract concepts)
 Compound nouns – shoulder bag, beach ball
(combines two nouns to make a word)
Nouns

7.  Understanding Noun Phrases
A noun phrase is a group of words that
surround the main noun and help to give
more information about the noun:
e.g. a slimy, muddy puddle.
In this sentence, the puddle is the noun
and the other two words are actually
adjectives to describe the puddle. But
together they form a noun phrase

8. Noun phrases

9. Noun phrases

10. Noun phrases

11. Noun Groups

12. Verb tenses: Present tense

13. Verb tenses: Past tense

14. Verb tenses: Future

15.  Verbs take different forms (‘parts’)
 the base or infinitive which often has the
work ‘to’ placed before it (look, see)
 the past tense (looked, saw)
 the past participle (looked, seen)
 The third person singular (looks, sees)
 present participle (looking, seeing).
Can you see any IRREGULARITY here? Can you think of
some other IRREGULAR VERBS?
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Parts of Verbs

16.  Try to complete the table using the
following verb: to jump then the verb to
eat

17. You can arrange the elements of your message (e.g.
you, dog, walk) in order to achieve different purposes:
•Statements:
You walked the dog.
You didn’t walk the dog.
•Questions:
Did you walk the dog?
Didn’t you walk the dog?
•Commands: (imperatives)
Walk the dog!
Don’t walk the dog!
Note: Positive and Negative
Sentence Types