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Chapter 7: Noun phrases, pronouns and verb forms

  • Strand Grammar
  • Level Year 4
  • Practice 91 questions with step-by-step solutions

National Curriculum for England, Key Stage 2 English, Year 4. Content: Expand noun phrases with adjectives, describing nouns and prepositional phrases, and name the determiner and the noun, Choose a noun or a pronoun so that the reader knows who or what is meant, and to avoid repetition, Use pronouns before a verb (I, he, they) and after a verb or a preposition (me, him, them), and possessive pronouns that stand alone, Use Standard English verb forms in writing: we were, I did, I saw, not we was, I done, I seen, Use the present perfect (have or has with a past participle) in contrast to the past tense, Use the terms noun phrase, determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun and Standard English.

Open Year 4 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Find the noun phrase, the determiner and the noun in a sentence
  • Expand a noun phrase with an adjective, a describing noun and a prepositional phrase
  • Replace a noun phrase with a pronoun, and check that the pronoun points to one clear noun
  • Tell a determiner (my, these) from a possessive pronoun (mine, theirs) by whether a noun follows
  • Write Standard English verb forms in writing, such as we were and I did
  • Use the present perfect for something that matters now, and the past tense for a finished time

You should already know

  • Word classes: noun, adjective, pronoun, preposition, determiner (Year 3, Chapter 3)
  • Expanded noun phrases with adjectives and prepositional phrases (Year 3, Chapter 10)
  • The present perfect in contrast to the past tense (Year 3, Chapter 6)
  • Possessive apostrophes, and its and it's (Chapter 4 of this book)

Where this leads

  • Writing stories and non-fiction with clear pronouns, expanded noun phrases and Standard English (Chapters 11 and 12)
  • Clauses and connectives with pronouns and verb forms (Chapter 6 of this book)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 7.1 Noun phrases and determiners
  2. 7.2 Expanding noun phrases with adjectives, describing nouns and prepositional phrases
  3. 7.3 Pronouns: replacing a noun, and keeping the reference clear
  4. 7.4 Possessive pronouns and determiners: my or mine, her or hers
  5. 7.5 Standard English verb forms: we were, I did, I saw
  6. 7.6 The present perfect in contrast to the past tense
  7. Summary and key words
  8. Check-up and practice test questions

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