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         Â
Onomatopia
Oxymoron
Palindrome
Proverb
Parody
Diction
Allegory
Colloquialism
Symbolism
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