GrammarYear 1Word Classes

Nouns and verbs

Recognise and use nouns (including proper nouns) and verbs in sentences

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    A noun is the name of a person, place or thing — like 'cat', 'school' or 'Mum'.

  2. 2

    Which of these is a noun — a name for a thing? 🐱

  3. 3

    Look at this picture: The dog jumps. 🐶 'Dog' is the noun (who?), 'jumps' is the verb (what does it do?).

  4. 4

    Tap the word that is a verb — a doing word.

  5. 5

    Let's find the noun and verb in 'The bird sings.' 🐦

  6. 6

    In 'The fish swims', what is the verb? 🐟

  7. 7

    In 'The boy eats cake', what is the noun? 🧒

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