The document provides information about parts of speech and grammar concepts. It includes examples of different parts of speech like nouns, verbs and adjectives. It also discusses noun phrases, verb tenses, sentence types and questions. Key concepts covered are identifying parts of speech, irregular verbs, noun groups, verb forms, and arranging words to make statements, questions and commands.

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