Learn and revise sentence types and clauses, nouns, adjectives and verbs with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (AQA) study guide.

An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

We were all taught in elementary school that adverbs modify verbs and adjectives modify nouns: Happy adults sing happily. That’s true, but there’s more to the story.

There are eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and pshaw ... "modifies a noun." So red is an adjective because it tells us what kind of barn it is.

An adjective tells you more about a noun or pronoun. SCARY YETI. See how scary I am! Check me out! (roars) Scary Yeti! ... Children will learn how to write better stories using adjectives and adverbs.