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English Vocab
words for English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abbreviation | A shortened word or phrase eg. txt |
| Adjective | A part of speech that describes a noun. eg. beautiful |
| Alliteration | When a group of words, all beginning with the same letter sound, are placed close together |
| Collective noun | A noun that refers to a groupof people, animals or things. eg. Audience or team |
| Complex sentence | A sentence with a main clause and a subordinate clause |
| apostrophe | Used to show where letters have been missed out and to show when something belongs to somebody else. |
| Adverb | A part of speech that DESCRIBES a verb eg delightfully |
| Verb | A part of speech that tells you what a person or thing does or how they are. eg. run, believe, am |
| antonyms | Words which mean the opposite of each other |
| Compound words | Words made up of two smaller words joined together. eg afternoon |
| Colon : | Used when you are about to write a list and to introduce a second part of a sentence. |
| Comma | Used to separate parts of a sentence and to separate items in a list. |
| Brackets | Used when the writer wants to add some extra information to a sentence. |
| First person | When the writer speaks about himself or herself |
| Direct Speech | When you write down the actual words that are spoken and use speech marks. |
| Compound Sentence | A sentence with two main clauses Joined together by a word like and, but or or. |
| consonant | All letters except a, e, i, o, u. These letters need a vowel to help them sound |
| Dash - | Used to add extra information or comments to sentences |
| Future tense | Tells you about what will happen in the future. |
| homonym | Words that sound the same and are spelt the same but have different meanings. eg ate and eight |
| conjunction | Links clauses within a sentence eg for, and, but |
| Exclamation mark | Used to make a sentence stronger or more exciting. Also used with commands |
| exclamation | A sentence that shows someone feels strongly about something |
| Plural noun | A noun that refers to more than one thing or person. eg puppies |
| Noun | A part of speech that names a thing or a person. |
| Metaphor | Compares different things. They suggest that two things are the same. Eg. The classroom was a zoo! |
| homophone | Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings. eg whole and hole |
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