A round dot written at the end of a sentence to show where the sentence ends.
What is a full stop (period)?
100
Things you can see, hear, touch, smell, taste or feel: dog, music, pizza, town.
What is a common noun?
100
A verb made from 2 or more words, a helping (auxiliary) verb and main verb: was sleeping, is going, have been reading.
What is a verb chain?
100
A word for the name of a living thing, an object, a place or an emotion: boy, car, Bekkestua, happiness.
What is a noun?
100
A group of words that forms a complete thought. It begins with a capital letter, ends with a punctuation mark and has a subject and a verb: He is ten. The school is in Oslo.
What is a sentence?
200
Marks written to make sense of the words on a page: . , ! ? : ; ' " ".
What is punctuation?
200
A noun made up from two smaller nouns to form a new noun: handbag, lighthouse, armchair.
What is compound noun?
200
A verb that tells what happens now or what happens again and again: He is running now. Monsters like swamps. Tom lives in Poland.
What is a present tense verb?
200
An action word that tells you what a person or thing does or a state of being: to run - runs, running, am running, was running, ran; to shout - will shout, had to shout; to be - am, is, are, was, were; to do - do, does, did.
What is a verb?
200
A sentence with only one clause (a subject and a verb): The ballerina danced all night. Annie watched the television.
What is a simple sentence?
300
A punctuation mark used at the end of a question: What is the problem? Who is that in the park?
What is a question mark?
300
Names of particular people, places, titles or things. These nouns start with a capital letter: Sam, Germany, Central Park, King Harold, Sunday, December.
What is a proper noun?
300
A verb that tells what happened in the past or some time ago, often shown with the suffix -ed: The class walked to music class. We ate chocolate cake on Sally's birthday.
What is a past tense verb?
300
A word that describes a noun and gives more details or information about the word: an orange chair, a fantastic day.
What is an adjective?
300
A sentence with two main clauses joined together with a conjunction / connector: Joe likes chocolate drops and he likes toffee.
What is a compound sentence?
400
Marks used to show direct speech, what a person said or says: She said, "I am happy!"
What are speech marks?
400
An idea, state, emotion or a quality, not an object: love, idea, hate, freedom.
What is an abstract noun?
400
A verb that works with a main verb to tell more about an action or state of being. This verb comes before the main verb or verbs in a sentence: was sleeping, is going, have been reading.
What is a helping verb (auxiliary verb)?
400
A word that describes a verb: She reads very quickly. The cat is eating it dinner loudly.
What is an adverb?
400
A sentence with at least one main clause that makes sense: The dog ran in the field. After school I went to the library, where I met my friend.
What is a complete sentence?
500
A punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence to show excitement or strong emotions: This is the best car! I hate snow!
What is an exclamation point?
500
A noun that names a group of things, people or animals: a class of children, a pack of dogs.
What is a collective noun?
500
A verb that shows action that will happen in the future. This verb tense is usually formed with the helping verb will: I will go to Sweden next week. The bus will be fixed tomorrow.
What is a future tense verb?
500
A word that joins two or more words, phrases or clauses: or, and, but, because, if, although.
What is a conjunction (connector)?
500
A sentence with a main clause and a subordinate clause: Beverley went for a walk, although it was raining.