Capitals for proper adjectives
Use a capital letter for adjectives formed from proper nouns, as in "We waved the Canadian flag and ate Japanese food beside a Victorian house", explain which proper noun each adjective comes from, and tell proper adjectives apart from common adjectives in the same phrase.
Lesson
Set out your lesson
“Capitals for proper adjectives means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.”
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Worked example. In “The dogs run,” adult underlines the plural noun “dogs.”
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KS2 English
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Check understanding
- Capitalises adjectives formed from proper nouns in own writing (e.g. "the Canadian flag", "Japanese food")
- Corrects a sentence with lowercase proper adjectives and explains which proper noun each adjective comes from (e.g. Victorian from Queen Victoria)
- In a phrase such as "the tall Canadian athlete", sorts the adjectives into proper and common and capitalises only the proper one
“When your child writes about "the canadian flag" or "japanese food", do they know to use a capital letter because each word comes from the name of a country?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Grammar & Punctuation
- Age range
- Ages 9–11
Standards