Literacy and Punctuation

Question	Answer
Clause	group of words containing a verb
nouns	words used to identify everything around us (people, places and things)
Common and concrete nouns	Name the things around us that can be touched, smelled, tasted etc. e.g. book, bed
Proper nouns	names, places and things with capital letters e.g. Kayla, Queensland
Abstract nouns	name emotions, concepts and qualities e.g. love, education, intelligence
collective nouns	take a singular verb and a pronoun e.g. class, team
pronouns	used to replace nouns e.g. he, she, they ,we ,you
Verbs	words that tell us what happened, what is going to happen and what will happen "action words" e.g. i eat, you ate, he ran
adjectives	describe nouns, they explain what kind of colour, shape, size, how many e.g. gorgeous, blue, tiny
adverbs	provide more information about verbs e.g. it often rains, he quickly ran
prepositions	used to link nouns with other words e.g. in, on ,at ,near
conjuctions	Joining words e.g. and, or, but, because
interjections	are 'thrown' into the sentence to show an emotion or attitude e.g. yuk, Hey!
definite article	'the' is used to refer to a noun e.g. feed the dog, close the door
indefinite article	'a' and 'an' refer to any general noun e.g. buy me an ice cream
capital letters	used at beginning of sentences and proper nouns
full stops	end of a sentence
Question marks	show that a question requiring an answer has been asked
commas	help to break up long sentences and create pauses
Apostrophes	A) 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
quotation marks	used to show when someone is actually speaking "Hi, how are you" said Tia
Brackets	enclose words, clauses or phrases. Which are inserted into a sentence as an afterthought of explanation

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