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A suffix comes at the end of a word. You can add a suffix to a verb to make an adjective.
Example: Poison is a verb, but it becomes an adjective if you add ‘ous‘ to the end, to make poisonous.

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There’s only one place where it makes sense to place ‘but’. Can you find that first?

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The object often comes after the verb.

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The word that follows ‘an’ must start with a vowel.

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Can you guess which answer is right?

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A colon comes before a list of items.

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Just a one-word answer is needed here. There are lots of right answers for this.

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Inverted commas are sometimes called speech marks, and are placed either side of what someone said. What did the archaeologist say?

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A comma suggests a pause. If you were to say this sentence out loud, where do you think you would add a little pause?

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In the present progressive tense, the action that is being described is still going on. In the past progressive tense, the action is in the past.

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A pronoun can be used in place of a noun. Example: ‘I like David. David is funny.’

Instead of this, you could write, ‘I like David. He is funny’.

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A compound adjective (describing word) can be made from two words joined by a hyphen, such as ‘a well-struck ball’. Look out for compound adjectives that come just before the noun that they describe.

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You may get this wrong. You could get it wrong. You might get it wrong. But I shall be very surprised if you do.

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It may help to think about the punctuation marks that should go at the end of the sentences. Which one would have a question mark? Which one would have an exclamation mark? If you can spot that, you’re halfway there.

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Three of these sentences have a mistake in the tense of the verb. If it helps, imagine the Queen speaking each sentence. She doesn’t make many mistakes in her verb tenses.

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They are parentheses. But parentheses is not the right answer.

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They are also parentheses, but parentheses is not the correct answer.

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Some pairs of words can be joined and shortened using an apostrophe, for example have not can be shortened to haven’t.

Converting to the expanded form means doing the opposite, putting them back as two words.

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Exclamation marks should really only be used when people exclaim. Got it? Fantastic!

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The names of people and places deserve capital letters; but that’s not all. If something is so special that it’s the only one, chances are it gets a capital letter too.

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A semi-colon can be replaced with a full-stop (but you may not want to). For example: Sammy was tired; she’d been awake all night.

It would still make sense to write ‘Sammy was tired. She’d been awake all night.’ But you may prefer it with the semi-colon.

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Think of what all of the words have in common.

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Which word that has an apostrophe cannot be expanded back into two words?

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You’re looking for mistakes. A comma creates a pause in a sentence; so look for places where you find a comma but there is no need for a pause.

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A preposition deals with position; the clue is in the name.

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You can sometimes turn a simple statement into a question simply by swapping over the subject and the verb, if you remember to correct the punctuation also.

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‘Tense’ is all about when something happened – which words in the sentence tell you whether it was in the past, the present or the future?

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Remember, a subordinate clause cannot stand on its own as a complete sentence.

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Conjunctions are where things join. In each sentence, find the word that joins two separate parts.

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A main clause of a sentence could be a sentence all by itself.

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Only one comma is required here. (Poor Jon!)

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You’ll need two commas. (I’m glad Jon gets to go this time!)

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You can add a prefix to the start of some words to make a new word, for instance you could add the prefix sub to way and come up with subway.

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Remember, conjunctions are at the join of two sentence parts.

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The mark for this question belongs to you. It’s yours!

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‘Antonym’ is the antonym of ‘synonym’.

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There are several perfectly good answers to this question; you just need one word that does the job.

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Use of the simple past tense shows that the event has already taken place. Example: Compare ‘I eat my breakfast’ with ‘I ate my breakfast’.

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Adjectives describe things. So, in the example given, the sportswoman is described as famous, and famous is the adjective.

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If you can put ‘who is’ or ‘who has’ in the gap, you need ‘who’s’. If you can’t, then you need ‘whose’.

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A verb is an ‘action’ word. Is ‘point’ the name of something or is it an action being described?

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A noun is the name of something, not an ‘action’ word (verb). Is ‘point’ the name of something or is it an action being described?

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Relative clauses start with one of these words: who, that, which, whose, where, or when.

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Usually, the object of a sentence is being acted upon by the verb, but in the passive voice, the subject of the sentence is acted upon by the verb. Example: ‘Donald loves Hillary‘ becomes ‘Hillary is loved by Donald‘.

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In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence is acted upon by the verb. To turn the sentence into the active voice, the object of a sentence must be acted upon by the verb. Example: ‘Hillary is loved by Donald‘ becomes ‘Hillary loves Donald‘.

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Adverbs add something to the verb, to tell us more about how the verb did whatever it did. Example: ‘He ran well’.

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A clause always has a subject and a verb. That should narrow down your choices.

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Sorry! No hints for this – if I were you I’d just have a guess.

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Think what punctuation mark would be best to place at the end of the sentence – this may help you decide.

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We use the present perfect tense when we want to talk about unfinished actions that started in the past and are still going on.