Language: SPAG

Question 1

What are mnemonics?

Answer 1

Tool to help memory, often through use of memorable pattern of sounds, letters or words.

Question 2

What do you add on the end for past tense?

Answer 2

‘-ed’.

Question 3

What do you usually need to do if a verb is three letters in length and ends with a consonant?

Answer 3

Double the consonant before you add ‘-ed’.

Question 4

What are some commonly misspelt words (accept any below).

Answer 4

Abandoning.
Acceptable.
Accommodation.
Appreciation.
Argument.
Assessment.
Atmosphere.
Beginning.
Believe.
Collectable.
Compromising.
Concentration.
Conclusion.
Confirming.
Contentment.
Daughter.
Development.
Evaluation.
Explanation.
Fierce.
Foreign.
Independent.
Interesting.
Invincible.
Jealous.
Knowledge.
Liaison.
Listening.
Mischief.
Negligible.
Noticeable.
Permanent.
Proportion.
Receive.
Visible.
Weird.

Question 5

What are homophones?

Answer 5

Words that sound identical but have different spellings and meanings.

Question 6

What are some common examples of homophones?

Answer 6

Witch/which.
Too/two/to.
Sight/site.
Through/threw.
Whether/weather.
They're/their/there.
Break/brake.
Right/write.
Waist/waste.
Coarse/course.
Its/it's.
Stare/stair.
Weak/week.
So/sew/sow.
By/bye/buy.
Tail/tale.
Bored/board.
Piece/peace.
Serial/cereal.
Aloud/allowed.
Flour/flower.
Sent/scent/cent.
In/inn.

Question 7

What are full stops used for?

Answer 7

Separating sentences.

Question 8

What are exclamation marks used for?

Answer 8

Adding emphasis, suggesting that it is shouted, or that statement itself is outrageous.

Question 9

What are question marks used for?

Answer 9

Interrogative sentence 1 that asks a question. Sort of sentence indicated by question mark.

Question 10

What are commas used for?

Answer 10

Separating words in list + causes in a sentence.

Question 11

What is an apostrophe used for?

Answer 11

Signal to a reader, possession. (Apostrophe + ‘s’) omission (replaces letter or letter is a word or words.

Question 12

What are round brackets (a pair of parenthesis) used for?

Answer 12

Adding extra information.

Question 13

What is an elipsis (…) used for?

Answer 13

Signifying that part of a sentence is missing. Mainly used in dialogue.

Question 14

What is a colon (:) used for?

Answer 14

Introducing item of list of items.

Question 15

What is a semicolon (;) used for?

Answer 15

Linking 2 independent clauses that are connected in meaning.

Question 16

What are the word classes?

Answer 16

Nouns.
Adjectives.
Verbs.
Adverbs.
Prepositions.
Connectives.

Question 17

What type of nouns are there?

Answer 17

Proper nouns.
Abstract nouns.
Concrete nouns.