Assessment Week 2025 Punctuation And Grammar Flashcards
What is a homophone?
Two or more words which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Whether/weather refers to the conditions outside.
Weather
Whether/weather gives a choice between options.
Whether
Where/wear/were is a past tense version or are
Were
Where/wear/were refers to something you put on your body
Wear
Where/wear/were refers to a location
Where
To/two/too refers to have excessive amounts or doing it as well
Too
To/two/too is a number
Two
To/two/too is a preposition
To
There/their/they’re is a location
There
There/they’re/their belongs to them
Their
There/they’re/their is a contraction of they are
They’re
Semi-colons are used to…
Join two main clauses if their topics are related.
Where should the semi-colon go?
The night was still young people were dancing under the setting sun.
The night was young; people were dancing under the setting sun.
Where does the semi-colon go?
If I didn’t know better, I would have said it was a different man he bore no resemblance to her description.
If I didn’t know better, I would have said it was a different man; he bore no resemblance to her description.
Shall + not =
Shan’t
Will + not =
Won’t
Could + have =
Could’ve
She + will =
She’ll
You + are =
You’re
