Where are CAPITAL LETTERS needed in English? There are THREE answers!
-At the start of every sentence.
-For 'I' on its own (pronoun).
-Proper nouns (Names of people, places, months of the year, days of the week, and languages.)
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What punctuation can you NOT use at the end of a sentence?
a) Full stop .
b) Exclamation mark !
c) Comma ,
d) Question mark ?
c) Comma , They show a pause at the end of a clause, or separate items in a list.
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What are verbs?
a) words that describe nouns
b) words that show action
c) position words
d) words that describe adjectives
b) words that show action
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Nouns are...
a) objects, people, places, feelings etc. 'things'
b) words that describe things
c) actions
d) positions
a) objects, people, places etc.
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Adjectives...
a) describe verbs
b) give the position of something
c) describe nouns
d) are actions
c) describe nouns e.g. beautiful, caring, deafening
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Which of the following words is a PRONOUN?
went
Sara
they
shop
they
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Adverbs describe...
a) nouns
b) adjectives
c) prepositions
d) verbs
d) verbs. They describe HOW an action is done e.g. quickly, happily etc. Often (but not always) end in -ly suffix.
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Prepositions tell us...
a) the position of something (where it is) in relation to something else
b) the time something happened
c) how something happened
a) the position of something. The clue is in the word- prePOSITION!
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What kind of words can we use to extend sentences and join clauses together?
a) adjectives
b) nouns
c) conjunctions
d) prepositions
c) conjunctions
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There are two types of conjunctions; coordinating and subordinating. 'because' is an example of which type?
subordinating
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for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so are all what type of conjunction? Coordinating or subordinating?
Coordinating
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Which tense do we use when talking or writing about what has already happened?
past
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Which tense do we use when we want to talk about what is going to happen?
future
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Gerunds are verbs that...
a) end in -ly
b) end in -ing
c) end in -ed
b) end in -ing e.g. talking, working, going
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'If you don't complete your project, you won't pass.' is an example of...
a) past tense
b) a question
c) a conditional sentence
c) a conditional sentence 'If... then...' The consequence relies on the first part of the sentence. The consequence is CONDITIONAL upon the first event.
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We need to be careful of irregular verbs when we put them into past tense because...
The word can change completely and looks very different to the present tense.
