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Literacy and Punctuation
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- 1Clausegroup of words containing a verb
- 2nounswords used to identify everything around us
(people, places and things) - 3Common and concrete nounsName the things around us that can be touched, smelled, tasted etc.
e.g. book, bed - 4Proper nounsnames, places and things with capital letters
e.g. Kayla, Queensland - 5Abstract nounsname emotions, concepts and qualities
e.g. love, education, intelligence - 6collective nounstake a singular verb and a pronoun
e.g. class, team - 7pronounsused to replace nouns
e.g. he, she, they ,we ,you - 8Verbswords that tell us what happened, what is going to happen and what will happen
"action words"
e.g. i eat, you ate, he ran - 9adjectivesdescribe nouns, they explain what kind of colour, shape, size, how many
e.g. gorgeous, blue, tiny - 10adverbsprovide more information about verbs
e.g. it often rains, he quickly ran - 11prepositionsused to link nouns with other words
e.g. in, on ,at ,near - 12conjuctionsJoining words
e.g. and, or, but, because - 13interjectionsare 'thrown' into the sentence to show an emotion or attitude
e.g. yuk, Hey! - 14definite article'the' is used to refer to a noun
e.g. feed the dog, close the door - 15indefinite article'a' and 'an' refer to any general noun
e.g. buy me an ice cream - 16capital lettersused at beginning of sentences and proper nouns
- 17full stopsend of a sentence
- 18Question marksshow that a question requiring an answer has been asked
- 19commashelp to break up long sentences and create pauses
- 20ApostrophesA) to replace missing letters
e.g Let's party (let us party), You're boring (You are boring)
B) they indicate something is owned
e.g my father's office, Ashley's party - 21quotation marksused to show when someone is actually speaking
"Hi, how are you" said Tia - 22Bracketsenclose words, clauses or phrases. Which are inserted into a sentence as an afterthought of explanation
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