Year 4 Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials worksheet

“Finding the determiners” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 English unit “Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 24 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 3 to 4 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

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Finding the determiners

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · English · about 24 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can spot determiners, even when adjectives sit between them and the noun.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the noun in: “The happy dog ran home.”
happydogran
2.
Circle the verb in: “Birds sing in the morning.”
birdssingmorning
3.
Circle the adjective in: “The tall tree grew.”
treetallgrew

B Watch me, then you4 min

Lena feeds her rabbit every morning. Read it, then look at the picture.

A wooden rabbit hutch with a grey rabbit inside, in a back garden

Watch me

Find the noun first: rabbit.

her starts the noun phrase her rabbit, so her is the determiner.

her shows the rabbit belongs to Lena, so it is a possessive pronoun.

Now you

1.
Circle the determiner in: “Our old dog sleeps by the fire.”
Ourolddogsleeps

C Your turn8 min

Each picture hides one word. Find the noun, then look back to the word that starts its phrase.

1.
Circle the word that fits: “Mia lost ___ hat at the park.”
herfasthappily
2.
Circle the word that fits: “She ate ___ apple.”
antwoquickly
3.
Circle the word that fits: “Noah fed ___ tiny black kitten.”
histinykitten
4.
Circle the determiner: “We stroked the soft sleepy cat.”
strokedthesoftcat

Say it out loud: Where did the determiner sit in every row? What word came straight after it each time?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A rusty old bicycle leaning against a garden wall

Kit says: “In ‘I rode my rusty old bicycle’, the determiner is old.”

1.
Circle the real determiner in the sentence.
myoldbicycle

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Find the determiners in: “Their new puppy chewed a sock near the door.” Name each as an article or a possessive pronoun.

How did it feel?

Which determiner was hardest to spot today? Tell your grown-up why.

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Finding the determiners · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. dog

2. sing

3. tall

B

1. Our If your child circles old, they have found the adjective. Look for the word that comes first in the phrase, before the adjective.

C

1. her If your child circles fast, they are picking a word that tells how something happens. A determiner starts the noun phrase. Point to hat, then the word before it.

2. an If your child circles two, they have picked a number word. Apple starts with a vowel sound, so the article is an.

3. his If your child circles tiny, they have spotted the adjective. The adjectives sit in the middle, so the determiner is the word before them.

4. the If your child circles soft, they have chosen an adjective. Look past both adjectives to the word that starts the phrase.

D

1. my If your child circles old, they have made Kit's mistake. Old is a describing word. The determiner comes before the describing words, so find the first word of the phrase: my.

E

1. Look for: Their as a possessive pronoun; a and the as articles; all three named

Words to use

Say“Can you find the noun first? Which word starts the group of words in front of it?”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer, or say the adjectives are the determiners.”

After the sheet

Put a cup, a spoon and a bowl on the table. Say “my cup” and “the spoon”, then ask which word comes before each noun. Then say “the big blue bowl” and find the determiner.

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The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Where, when and why words(with a plan)
Fronted adverbials: words and phrases(with a plan)
Openers with or without verbs(with a plan)
Same words, opposite words(with a plan)

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