Word classes practice
Word classes are the jobs words do in a sentence. Noggli shows a sentence, highlights one word and asks what it is, from nouns and verbs up to determiners.
What type of word is them?
What your child practises
- Year 2identify nouns and verbs
- Year 3identify adjectives
- Year 4identify adverbs
- Year 5identify pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and determiners
Mix-ups Noggli looks out for
- Mixes up adjectives and adverbs
Same word, different job
Words do not have a fixed class: it depends on the sentence. In "thick fog covered the town", town is a noun. In "she spoke softly", softly is an adverb because it tells us how she spoke.
Year 5 adds pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and determiners. "Those" is a determiner in "those biscuits" and a pronoun in "those are mine".
Helping at home
- Ask what the word is doing: naming, doing, describing a thing, or describing an action?
- Many adverbs end in -ly, but not all do (soon, often, very).
- Play word class bingo with a reading book.
Made for children who worry about getting it wrong
A clue, not a cross
A wrong answer gets a clue and another go. A second miss shows how it works, step by step.
No clock
Nothing counts down. Confidence first, speed follows on its own.
The right level
After a few questions Noggli knows where your child is, and every question after that adapts.
Related practice
Questions parents ask
What are word classes?
Groups of words by the job they do in a sentence, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and determiners.
What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb?
An adjective describes a noun (a quiet room). An adverb usually describes a verb (she spoke quietly). Mixing them up is common, and Noggli spots it.
Are word classes in the Year 6 SATs?
Yes. The grammar paper often asks children to identify or use a particular word class in a sentence.
Practise this every day, at the right level
Noggli works out where your child is in every topic and adjusts each question to suit. Free, with no timers, no scores and no child accounts.