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Expanding Noun PhrasesYear 7 Sentence Starters

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Nouns and noun phrases

Adjectives and adjectival phrases

Prepositional phrases

Expanding noun phrases activity and summary


Expanding Noun Phrases – Nouns and noun phrases





Hi Lei. Do you know how I can make my writing more descriptive?

I think so...Yes – that’s it! You need to describe your nouns in more detail to interest your reader.

Okay, that sounds good but can we recap nouns first?


Nouns and noun phrases revision

I know that nouns are used all the time in our writing…

Nouns are people, places, things or emotions,

e.g. Megan, France, a book, the sun, love etc.

Noun phrases are too…

Noun phrases are a group of words (including a noun) which form a sentence when they are used with a verb,

e.g. My friends can ski.

noun phrase verb phrase


Expanding Noun Phrases – Adjectives and adjectival phrases


Adjectives and adjectival phrases


Adjectives give us more information about a noun,

The adjective ‘ginger’ gives us additional information aboutthe cat which is more interesting for the reader and is specific.

e.g. The ginger cat sat on the table.

Adjectives

I know that one way of describing nouns in more detail is to use adjectives…

Try using different adjectives to change the description of the cat.


Spotting adjectives


Sometimes we use a group of words to describe a noun more thoroughly. These are called adjectival phrases…

This cake is very nice.

The book is really good.

The play is boring and too long.

Adjectival phrases

An adjectival phrase is a group of words (including an adjective) which describes a noun more thoroughly and makes a sentence when used with a verb,

e.g.noun phrase

verb

adjectival phrase


Identifying adjectival phrases

Read these sentences and then decide which parts are adjectival phrases:

1. The golden retriever dog was extremely friendly.

2. My parents watch snooker and are really huge fans.

3. Your curly red hair is very pretty.

4. Our small, fragile Earth orbits the Sun.

5. I took ages to decide which dark blue jeans to buy.

6. You should eat fruit and vegetables as they are very healthy foods.

Did you decide on these answers?


Completing adjectival phrases


Expanding Noun Phrases – Prepositional phrases





Great, I can use noun phrases and adjectival phrases to improve my writing.

Yes they are both useful ways of varying your writing, but you could go even further…by using prepositional phrases.


Prepositions and prepositional phrases

I know that prepositions are small words which explain the position of nouns.

Prepositions describe where the noun is for the reader to imagine it clearly,

e.g. in, on, to, at, with, under, over, above, below etc.

A prepositional phrase is a group of words (including a preposition) which describes where a noun is so the reader can imagine it clearly…

e.g. Many strange creatures live under the sea.

adjectival phrase

verb phrase

prepositional phrase


Spotting prepositions


Identifying prepositional phrases

Decide which parts are prepositional phrases in the following sentences:

1. Above the clouds, the air is cold.

2. After the rain comes the sun.

3. Many of the students caught the bus to school.

4. Over the stile, the farm lay along the gravel track.

5. Pebbles were caught under the wheel of the bike.

6. A pot of gold lies at the end of the rainbow.

Did you find these answers?


Completing prepositional phrases


Expanding Noun Phrases – activity and summary


Expanding noun phrasesactivity and summary


Writing phrases activity

Read the noun phrases below and then write an adjectival phrase and a prepositional phrase to complete each sentence in an imaginative way,

e.g. The parrot is very colourful and is sitting on a perch.

noun phrase adjectival phrase prepositional phrase

1. The funfair

2. Martin’s skateboard

3. Scuba diving

4. School holidays

5. My bike


Summary

My writing is going to be fantastic now that I’ve learnt all these new techniques…

Yes, you might even start writing nearly as well as I do soon…!

Remember:

adjectival phrases add description to noun phrases

prepositional phrases explain the positions of nouns.

TIP: Try to use a mixture of phrases in your writing.

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