Fast Facts For English
FAST FACTS for English
PERIODS,
COMMAS AND MORE
APOSTROPHE
An apostrophe shows:
possession/ownership
or is used when making
a contraction.
COLON
A symbol that indicates
that a list, quotation
or summary follows.
COMMA
A symbol that
signals you to pause
or separate ideas
in a sentence.
EXCLAMATION POINT
A symbol that ends
a sentence with
strong emotion.
PERIOD
A symbol that ends
a complete sentence.
PUNCTUATION
Symbols that end
or separate
complete sentences.
QUESTION MARK
A symbol that ends
a sentence that
asks a question.
SEMI-COLON
A symbol that separates
two complete sentences.
PARTS OF SPEECH
ADJECTIVE
A word that describes
a noun.
ADVERB
A word that describes
a verb, adjective
or another adverb,
often ending in “ly.”
CONSONANT
A letter of the alphabet.
(b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n,
p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z)
CONJUNCTION
Words that link other
words, phrases or
sentences together.
CONTRACTION
Words that are made
by combining two words
and dropping letters.
NOUN
A person, place, thing
or idea.
PLURAL NOUN
More than one person,
place, thing or idea.
PREPOSITION
A word that shows
direction and/or time.
PRONOUN
A word that replaces
a noun and can go either
before or after the verb.
PROPER NOUN
A name of a specific
person, place, thing
or idea.
SINGULAR NOUN
One person, place,
thing or idea.
VERB
An action word.
VOWEL
A letter of the alphabet.
(a, e, i, o, u and
sometimes y)
OTHER
IMPORTANT
TERMS
HOMOPHONE
Words that are
pronounced the same,
but differ in spelling
and meaning.
PREFIX
A group of letters placed
before a word to change
its meaning and form
a new word.
SUFFIX
A group of letters placed
after a word to change
its meaning and form
a new word or tense.
