English Week 3- Grammar and Punctuation Overview

Welcome to this week’s focus on: ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION

Grammar and Punctuation

Adjectives- describing words- big, small, greedy

Nouns- things, dog, cat, house

Verb- a doing word- eat, run, dance, shout

Adverb – how you do something- quickly, slowly, often, rarely.

Conjunction- joins to parts of a sentence. Although, but

Preposition – where something is on, under, around, through, between

Pronoun – so many different types- whose, ours, mine,y ours theirs, I , you, them

Subject

Object

Punctuation

Question Mark- end of a question- Where is my jacket?

Speech Marks – surrounds speech eg: “Here is the car” said Joan

Comma – is between a list. I would like to buy 3 bananas, 5 apples and 6 oranges.

Dash- shows something you have thought of afterwards. Eg: I went to the correct shot- at least I thought I had!

Full Stop- end of the sentence.

Exclamation – shows excitement Wow!

Apostrophe – shows a word has been shorted I’ll is I will. Or possessive apostrophe Eg: Helen’s briefcase

Semi colon – independent sentences I went to the shop; I bought six apples and twenty plums.

Colon- introducing something. Yesterday I went out: I went to the shops, the supermarket, the garage and then go home.

Verb Tense

Past

Present

Future

Conditional Would, Should, Could

Other:

Idioms

Similies

Metaphors

Imperatives

Personification

Alliteration

Hyperbole          

Onomatopia

Oxymoron

Palindrome

Proverb

Parody

Diction

Allegory

Colloquialism

Symbolism

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