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What is a Noun?
A noun is a naming word.
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What is a common noun?
The name of people, places, creatures, or objects.
For example: teacher,school,mice and chalk
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What is a proper noun?
the name of a particular person, place, thing, business, or organisation
For example: Kate, Rotorua, Milford Sound, The Warehouse
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What is a collective noun?
- The name given to a group of things.
- Example: A flock of birds or the crusaders
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What is an abstract noun?
- Something you cannot see, hear, touch or taste.
- These can be qualities, emotions or ideas.
For example: Courage, power, creativity, independence
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What are pronouns?
Pronouns are used instead of nouns when referring to a person or things
E.g. I, you, she, they, he, us etc
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What is an Adjective?
adjectives are describing words.
E.g. The Yellow car, The wall was an awesome shade of orange
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What is a verb?
A verb is a doing or an action word
e.g. Jackson chased the ball, Bella barked at the cat
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What is an Adverb?
An adverb tells us how, when or where an action takes place.
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What is a metaphor?
When one thing is said to be another
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What is an assonance?
Assonance is the deliberate repetition of the same vowel sound followed by a different consonant sound.
"Try to light the fire"
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what is a Hyperbole
an over-exaggeration
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