Year 2 Grammar Terminology: Match the Term to Its Definition
Match every statutory Year 2 grammar term (noun, noun phrase, statement and more) from English Appendix 2 to its definition, with an answer key.
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Year 2 Grammar Terminology: Match the Term to Its Definition
The National Curriculum expects Year 2 pupils to know these grammar terms (English Appendix 2, 'terminology for pupils'). Circle the term that matches each definition.
- 1.Which term means: a word that names a person, place or thing?
- a) question
- b) exclamation
- c) noun
- 2.Which term means: a group of words built around a noun, such as 'the blue butterfly'?
- a) command
- b) apostrophe
- c) noun phrase
- 3.Which term means: a sentence that tells you something and ends with a full stop?
- a) statement
- b) exclamation
- c) noun
- 4.Which term means: a sentence that asks something and ends with a question mark?
- a) noun phrase
- b) noun
- c) question
- 5.Which term means: a sentence that shows strong feeling and ends with an exclamation mark?
- a) tense (past, present)
- b) exclamation
- c) suffix
- 6.Which term means: a sentence that tells someone to do something?
- a) command
- b) statement
- c) question
- 7.Which term means: a word made of two words joined together, such as football?
- a) adverb
- b) comma
- c) compound
- 8.Which term means: letters added to the end of a word to change it, such as -ness?
- a) suffix
- b) command
- c) comma
- 9.Which term means: a word that describes a noun?
- a) noun
- b) command
- c) adjective
- 10.Which term means: a word that describes a verb, often ending in -ly?
- a) question
- b) adverb
- c) noun
- 11.Which term means: a word for an action or a state of being?
- a) verb
- b) adverb
- c) suffix
- 12.Which term means: the form of a verb that shows when something happens?
- a) tense (past, present)
- b) suffix
- c) noun
- 13.Which term means: the mark (') that shows missing letters or belonging?
- a) apostrophe
- b) compound
- c) verb
- 14.Which term means: the mark (,) that separates items in a list?
- a) exclamation
- b) statement
- c) comma
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- DfE, English Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation (statutory) — The per-year 'terminology for pupils' is reproduced verbatim from the DfE appendix under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright). Definitions and practice sentences are ChalkBee's own.