Grammar Academic Vocabulary

a word that describes or modifies a verb

• contraction

• adjective

• apostrophe

• adverb

words that have similar meanings

• statement

• synonym

• exclamation

• homophone

punctuation marks used around spoken words

• quotation marks

• noun

• question mark

• apostrophe

punctuation mark used in contractions

• homograph

• exclamation mark

• comma

• apostrophe

any letter that is not a vowel

• compound sentence

• contraction

• consonant

• conjunction

a person, place, thing, or idea

• vowels

• noun

• homograph

• period

words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings

• adjective

• homophone

• homograph

• statement

punctuation used to show a pause or used to separate a list of items

• quotation

• conjunction

• adverb

• comma