Year 4 · SPaG · Noun phrases
Year 4 determiners before modifiers worksheet and PowerPoint
To use determiners before adjectives and nouns, and to name the kinds of determiner.
Determiners
A determiner comes before the adjectives and the noun. There are articles (a, an, the), possessive determiners (my, your, his, her, our, their), demonstrative ones (this, that, these, those), numerical ones (one, two, three) and quantifiers (some, many, every).
| article | a cat, an egg, the dog |
|---|---|
| possessive | my book, their garden |
| demonstrative | this hat, those shoes |
| numerical | two apples, ten pupils |
| quantifier | some milk, every child |
Examples
- My two small brothers
- Those old shoes
Key words
- determiner
- comes before a noun phrase
- article
- a, an, the
- possessive determiner
- my, your, his, her, our, their
- demonstrative
- this, that, these, those
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Write six noun phrases, each with a determiner and two adjectives. Use a different kind of determiner in each one.
Pupil target: I can name the kind of determiner.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the determiners before modifiers PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 30 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Noun phrases”.
Other lessons in this block
- Identifying noun phrases
- Modifying adjectives and nouns
- Prepositional phrases in noun phrases
- Using expanded noun phrases
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