This is french revision notes for GCSE standerd students on french grammer Ie pronoun preposition conjunction etc.
French revision
The girl quickly makes a delicious cake in the Kitchen.
The = definate article
Girl= noun (subject)
Quickly= adverb
Makes= verb
A = indefinate article
Delicious =adjective
Cake = noun (direct object)
In = preposition
The = definate article
Kitchen = noun
-The definate article is the grammatical name given to the word 'the'.
The indefinate article is the name given to the word 'a' or 'an.'
A noun is a person, place, thing or animal (eg. Tom, London, chair, cat.)
A verb is a word that describes an action (eg. Eats.)
An adjective is a word that describes a noun (eg. Pretty).
An adverb is a word that describes the verb. It tells you how an action is done (eg. Quickly). Many adverbs in English end in '-ly'.
A preposition is a word placed before a noun or a pronoun to indicate time, place or condition (eg. On the table.)
A conjunction is a word that links two parts of a sentence (eg. He was eating and drinking.) The most common conjunctions in English are 'and' and 'but'.
A pronoun is a word that stands in place of a noun. In the sentence above, we could replace the noun 'the girl' by the pronoun 'she'. Similarly, 'a cake' could be replaced by 'it'.
A relative pronoun is a word that links one part of a sentence to another. In English the relative pronouns are 'who', 'whom', 'which', 'where' and 'that'. (eg. I gave him all the money that I earned.) The two parts of the sentence - (I gave him all the money, and that I earned) - are linked together by the relative pronoun 'that'.
A Negative is a word like 'not or 'never' that indicates an action is not being done.
Gender refers to whether...
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