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Simon Timson Norbreck School 2007

I am an apostrophe.
You show, perhaps, that someone has shouted.

I am an exclamation mark!
You can be used before a list.

I am a colon.
You are a word like I, you, she, it, we, they or us (words that do not often come after a comma).

I am a pronoun.
You are a person, place or thing.

I am a noun.
You are a word that describes a noun.

I am an adjective.
You are found on either end of something that is spoken.

“I am a speech mark.” (I can never be alone!)
You describe how something is done.

I am an adverb.
You can separate items in a list.

I am a comma.
You end a sentence even when part of an exclamation or question mark.

I am a full stop.
You are used for words that are places or names, or that start a sentence.

I am a capital letter.
You can avoid a splice or comma splice with me.

I am a semi colon.
You are the name given to a, an and the.

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I am an article.
You are the letters a, e i, o and u.

I am the vowels.
You are all the other letters.

I am consonants.
You separate different events, times or speech in writing.

I am a paragraph.
You are words that sound the same at the end.

I am rhyme.
You are words that start with the same sound. E.g. The final fight finished the feud.

I am alliteration.
You are a phrase that compares one thing to another. E.g. as wise as an owl.

I am a simile.
You describe different objects as being the same. E.g. The grass was an emerald blanket.

I am a metaphor.
You make objects sound like humans. E.g. The streetlights leaned over to look at the cars’ white eyes.

I am personification.
You show belonging. E.g. the dog’s bone.

I am a possessive apostrophe.
I can join two sentences together to make a compound sentence. E.g. and, but, although, because, since.

I am a conjunction.
You show that time has passed. E.g. Later that day, earlier on.

I am a time connective.
You can start a sentence to lead onto another idea. E.g. Consequently, Furthermore, However.

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I am a connective.
You use words like: no-one can deny, few may dispute that, it is a fact that, many critics cite that, it is my opinion that, despite.

I am language of debate.
You can be used in place of commas or brackets to create a more complex sentence.

I am dashes.
You are a style of writing that often uses bullet points.

I am instructions.
You are a style that has the name of the speaker on the left and no speech marks.

I am a play script.
You are a style that begins with Dear and ends with Yours.

I am a letter.
You are a style that has paragraphs like so: introduction, main person, quotes from them, other people and quotes and a conclusion.

I am a journalistic report.
You are a word that must not be used in writing, beginning with ‘g’.

I am ‘got’.
You are a word that must not be used in writing, beginning with ‘n’.

I am ‘nice’.
You are the name given to an -’ing’ word at the start of sentence that can create a complex sentence.

I am a present participle.
You can be used when letters are missed out. E.g. can’t, won’t, isn’t, couldn’t.