Year 4 - English
Prepositions
Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils learn and review a number of grammatical terms: determiner, article, possessive pronoun, preposition, phrase, clause, fronted adverbial, clause, phrase, synonym, antonym, etymology and word family. Critically, they learn that any fronted adverbial is followed by a comma.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to write a range of sentence types with prepositions to indicate time, place or cause.
Key Notes
- Prepositions tell the reader where or when something is in relation to something else.
- Prepositions can indicate time, place or cause.
- Prepositions can be single words or groups of words.
- A phrase is a group of words with no verb.
Vocabulary To Learn
- preposition: word or words that can tell the reader where, when or why something is happening
- phrase: a group of words with no verb
- clause: a group of words that contains a verb
- indicate: show or signal
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that words stay as prepositions irrespective of what follows them.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Prepositions tell the reader where or when something is in relation to something else. Prepositions can indicate time, place or cause.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'preposition'
word or words that can tell the reader where, when or why something is happening.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think that words stay as prepositions irrespective of what follows them. Correction: Some words are prepositions when followed by a noun phrase, but they can be conjunctions or adverbs in other circumstances.
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