Match the following categories of English words with their likely language origins

1. Scientific terms such as: cerebellum, radius, lens

c) Latin (or possibly Greek)

2. Words to do with administration, law and conquest, such as: parliament, council, plea, verdict, armour, castle

b) French or French through Latin

3. Antiquated idioms such as ‘the straight and narrow’, ‘a still small voice’, ‘at one fell swoop’

d) The Bible or Shakespeare

4. The hundred most common words in English such as: you, go, there

a) Anglo-Saxon

Name the part of speech or word class of ‘brief’ in each of the following:

He wrote a brief description of the event. Adjective

She briefed her staff about the forthcoming meeting. Verb

The solicitor picked up the brief. Noun

The children were interviewed briefly. Adverb

Parse (i.e. describe each word grammatically) the following sentence:

The oldest child carefully took Sam’s discarded toys and placed them in his own toybox.

The Definite article

oldest Adjective

child Common noun

carefully Adverb

took Verb

Sam’s Proper noun

discarded Adjective

toys Collective noun

and Conjunction

placed Verb

them Pronoun

in Preposition

his Possessive pronoun

own Adjective/modifier

toybox Noun