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Here’s an easy exercise to teach grammar.

You hand your child a worksheet and ask her if she recognizes any words from the title.

She shakes her head.

Now, you proceed to explain what nouns, verbs, and adjectives are to her. The only problem is that you’re not sure how.

If you’ve faced this issue before, here’s an easy way to teach your child about these parts of speech.

First, write the word “NOUN” on a piece of paper or a whiteboard. 

Then, tell them that nouns are people, places, things, and animals.

Afterwards, give them examples for each. For instance, you could write:

• People: Man and Sister
• Places: Canada and Shopping Malls
• Things: Chair and Toy
• Animals: Bird and Dog

Last, ask them to give you examples for each category of nouns.

Now, you do the same thing with verbs and adjectives.

You tell her that verbs are “doing” words and that there are action verbs and non-action verbs.

Then you give examples for each. For instance, you can write:

• Action Verbs: Run, Jump, Eat, Sit
• Non-Action Verbs: Is, Are, Was, Were

For adjectives, you can tell her that they are words that describe nouns.

Then, again, give her examples.

• Blue Car
• 3 Cars
• Big Car

Afterwards, ask her to give you examples of each.

Once she’s got the hang of it, write a sentence and have her label what part of speech each word is.

For example: Tom / ate / three / sandwiches.

• Tom = noun.
• ate = verb
• three = adjective
• sandwiches = noun.

If you want some more examples of this exercise, read this blog post.

And that’s a quick and easy way to explain and teach your child nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

However, if you want your child to learn every grammar rule, grammar workbooks are the best resource for teaching this stuff because each lesson will teach your child the rules and provide questions for them to practice.

Grab my grammar workbooks here.