Year 6 Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons worksheet

“Word jobs in sentences” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 English unit “Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons”, for children aged 10 to 11, 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. Weeks 4 to 5 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Word jobs in sentences

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can spot a word's class by the job it does in the sentence.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the verb in: The dog barked loudly.
dogbarkedloudlyThe
2.
Write each word in the right column: garden, sing, school, jump.
gardensingschooljump
Naming word Doing word
3.
Join each word to its job.
happydogruns
doing worddescribing wordnaming word

B Watch me, then you4 min

Look at each word in this sentence: The lamp was warm. Find the determiner first, because it comes before a noun.

Watch me

'The' is a determiner. It comes before a noun, so the next word, lamp, is a noun.

'was' is a verb. It is a being word.

'warm' describes the lamp, so it is an adjective.

Now you

1.
In 'A cold wind blew across the field', circle the adjective.
Acoldwindblew
2.
In 'Those dogs ran away', circle the determiner.
Thosedogsranaway

C Your turn6 min

Read each sentence. Circle the word the question asks for.

1.
Circle the noun in: The light is on.
Thelightison
2.
Circle the adverb in: The light shone brightly.
Thelightshonebrightly
3.
Circle the verb in: We light the lamp.
Welightthelamp
4.
Circle the adjective in: Light rain fell on the hill.
Lightrainfellhill

Say it out loud: What changed from one sentence to the next, and did the word you circled change its job?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A garden with a spade and wheelbarrow after a day of digging

Leo says: “In 'We worked hard', 'hard' is an adjective, because it describes a noun.”

1.
Circle the word class of 'hard' in 'We worked hard'.
adjectiveadverbnounverb

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Write one sentence where 'fly' is a doing word, and one where 'fly' is a thing. Tell your grown-up which word helped you spot the thing.

How did it feel?

Which word puzzle was the trickiest? Tell your grown-up why.

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Word jobs in sentences · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. barked

2. Doing word: sing, jump · Naming word: garden, school

3. happy → describing word; dog → naming word; runs → doing word

B

1. cold

2. Those your child may circle 'dogs' because it is a thing. Ask which word comes just before the noun and tells us which dogs.

C

1. light your child may circle 'is' or 'on' because they are short. Ask which word comes straight after 'The'.

2. brightly your child may circle 'shone' because it is the verb. An adverb can tell how, when, where or how much. Ask which word tells how the light shone.

3. light your child may circle 'lamp' because it is a thing. Here 'light' is the doing word. Ask what we do to the lamp.

4. Light your child may circle 'rain' because it names something. 'Light' describes the rain, so it is the adjective.

D

1. adverb your child may have chosen adjective because Leo did. Adjectives describe nouns. 'Hard' tells how 'worked' was done, so it is an adverb. Ask: what does the word describe?

E

1. Look for: Two sentences: fly as a doing word (for example, birds fly south), and fly as a thing that comes after a determiner such as a or the.

Words to use

Say“Which word came just before it? Is it doing something, or is it a thing?”

Instead of“Just learn the word class list by heart and do not worry about the sentence.”

After the sheet

Choose a recipe card with your child. Each of you labels five words with N, V, Adj, Adv or D, then compare and talk about any you disagree on.

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

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

Simple or compound?(with a plan)
Three kinds of clause(with a plan)
Simple and progressive tenses(with a plan)
Spotting Perfect Tenses(with a plan)
Doers and receivers(with a plan)
Little words, big jobs(with a plan)
Apostrophes and speech marks(with a plan)
Commas, brackets and dashes(with a plan)
Colons, semi-colons and hyphens(with a plan)

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