Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation - Year 2

Details of content introduced at Year 2:

Text

• Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing
• Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress (eg. she is drumming, he was shouting)

Punctuation

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
• Commas to separate items in a list
• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns (eg. the girl's name)

Terminology

• noun, noun phrase
• statement, question, exclamation, command
• compound, suffix
• adjective, adverb, verb
• tense (past, present)
• apostrophe, comma

Words in bold can be found in our glossary