Year 5 Grammar Terminology: Match the Term to Its Definition
Match every statutory Year 5 grammar term (modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause and more) from English Appendix 2 to its definition, with an answer key.
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Year 5 Grammar Terminology: Match the Term to Its Definition
The National Curriculum expects Year 5 pupils to know these grammar terms (English Appendix 2, 'terminology for pupils', shown here with revision terms from earlier years). Circle the term that matches each definition.
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DashCommaBracketCohesionAmbiguityModal verbNoun phraseParenthesisRelative clauseRelative pronoun
- 1.Which term means: a verb such as might, should or must that shows how likely or necessary something is?
- a) ambiguity
- b) modal verb
- c) noun phrase
- 2.Which term means: a word such as who or which that begins a relative clause?
- a) relative pronoun
- b) ambiguity
- c) dash
- 3.Which term means: a clause beginning with who, which or a similar word that tells you more about a noun?
- a) bracket
- b) relative clause
- c) modal verb
- 4.Which term means: extra information dropped into a sentence, marked with brackets, dashes or commas?
- a) parenthesis
- b) ambiguity
- c) cohesion
- 5.Which term means: a curved mark used in pairs to add extra information to a sentence?
- a) bracket
- b) comma
- c) relative pronoun
- 6.Which term means: a long horizontal mark that can set off extra information in a sentence?
- a) dash
- b) comma
- c) relative clause
- 7.Which term means: the way a text flows, with ideas linked clearly from sentence to sentence?
- a) noun phrase
- b) dash
- c) cohesion
- 8.Which term means: when words could mean more than one thing?
- a) ambiguity
- b) relative pronoun
- c) noun phrase
- 9.Which term means: the mark (,) that separates items in a list?
- a) relative clause
- b) comma
- c) ambiguity
- 10.Which term means: a group of words built around a noun, such as 'the blue butterfly'?
- a) modal verb
- b) noun phrase
- c) ambiguity
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- DfE, English Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation (statutory) — The per-year 'terminology for pupils' is reproduced verbatim from the DfE appendix under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright). Definitions and practice sentences are ChalkBee's own.