This is our cheat sheet for our grammar gremlins test if you want to check where I got it from scroll down to blog-roll and click on grade 6.    see ya!!!!

Common NOUN - the name given to a person, place or thing eg pimple, towel, pumpkin

ADJECTIVE - a word which describes a noun eg. blind, prickly, enormous

PROPER NOUN - the name of a particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns have capital letters. eg Kevin Rudd, Canberra, Prime Minister

VERB - an action or a doing word. If you can do it, then it’s a verb eg crawl, tickle, swim

ADVERB - Adds to the verb. Usually ends in ly and usually answers the question “how” something was done. eg. erratically, mercilessly, quickly

PERSONAL PRONOUN - a word which indicates personal onwership eg she, he, they, we, them, their, we,

CONJUNCTION- A word that joins 2 ideas together in a sentence. eg. and, then, so, but.  One conjunction, one fullstop. A sentence must only contain one conjunction.

PREPOSITION - A word  which indicates the “position” of something, compared to something else eg. the frog in the pond, the turtle under the rocks