Year 5 Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials worksheet

“Little words, big jobs” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 English unit “Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials”, for children aged 9 to 10, and takes about 20 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. Week 2 of the year, 3 sheets in the unit.

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Little words, big jobs

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can find the determiner in a phrase, even when adjectives sit between it and the noun.

A Look back2 min

1.
In 'Birds sing loudly', circle the noun.
birdssingloudly
2.
In 'Cold winds blow', circle the adjective.
coldwindsblow
3.
In 'Snow falls softly', circle the verb.
snowfallssoftly

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola writes: 'A red kite flew over the hill.' Find the determiner that goes with 'kite'.

A grassy hill on a breezy day with one kite high in the sky

Watch me

Find the noun first: kite.

Look left. 'Red' is an adjective, so skip it.

'A' is the determiner. It is an article, so it means any kite.

Now you

1.
Circle the determiner in 'my shiny bike'.
myshinybike

C Your turn6 min

Circle the determiner in each phrase. Watch what changes from row to row.

1.
In 'the garden', circle the determiner.
thegarden
2.
In 'my garden', circle the determiner.
mygarden
3.
In 'the old garden', circle the determiner.
theoldgarden
4.
In 'our tall green garden', circle the determiner.
ourtallgreengarden

Say it out loud: What changed from row to row? Did the determiner ever move away from the front of the phrase?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A red bike leaning against a garden shed in the sunshine

Ali says: “In ‘the shiny bike’, the determiner is ‘shiny’.”

1.
Ali is wrong. Circle the word that really is the determiner.
theshinybike

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Write two sentences about a bus stop. In one, use 'a' before a noun. In the other, use 'the'. Underline each determiner. Then tell your grown-up which sentence points to one special bus stop.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Little words, big jobs · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. birds

2. cold

3. falls

B

1. my If your child circles 'shiny', they have found the adjective. Find the noun 'bike', then look left past 'shiny' to 'my'.

C

1. the If your child circles 'garden', they have circled the noun. The determiner comes before the noun.

2. my

3. the If your child circles 'old', they have found the adjective. Look left of 'old' for the determiner.

4. our If your child circles 'green', they stopped at the nearest adjective. Keep looking left until you reach 'our'.

D

1. the Ali picked 'shiny' because it sits next to the noun. Find the noun first ('bike'), then look left past 'shiny' to 'the'.

E

1. Look for: Two sentences about a bus stop, one with 'a' and one with 'the', determiners underlined, and a reason that 'the' means one particular bus stop.

Words to use

Say“Find the noun first, then look left past any adjectives. Which word sits right at the front?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away.”

After the sheet

Walk round the kitchen. Point at a cup, a tin and a spoon, saying 'a', then 'the', then 'my' before each. Ask what changes each time.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

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

Determiners that show how much or which(with a plan)
Starting sentences well(with a plan)

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