Year 6 Grammar Terminology: Match the Term to Its Definition
Match every statutory Year 6 grammar term (subject, object, active and more) from English Appendix 2 to its definition, with an answer key.
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Year 6 Grammar Terminology: Match the Term to Its Definition
The National Curriculum expects Year 6 pupils to know these grammar terms (English Appendix 2, 'terminology for pupils'). Circle the term that matches each definition.
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ColonObjectActiveHyphenSubjectPassiveAntonymSynonymEllipsisSemi-colonBullet points
- 1.Which term means: the person or thing a sentence is about, doing the verb?
- a) subject
- b) hyphen
- c) passive
- 2.Which term means: the person or thing that the verb is done to?
- a) colon
- b) passive
- c) object
- 3.Which term means: a sentence form where the subject does the action, as in 'Ella kicked the ball'?
- a) ellipsis
- b) synonym
- c) active
- 4.Which term means: a sentence form where the subject has the action done to it, as in 'The ball was kicked'?
- a) hyphen
- b) ellipsis
- c) passive
- 5.Which term means: a word with the same or nearly the same meaning as another word?
- a) synonym
- b) antonym
- c) passive
- 6.Which term means: a word with the opposite meaning to another word?
- a) antonym
- b) semi-colon
- c) object
- 7.Which term means: leaving words out of a sentence, or the three dots that show something is missing?
- a) ellipsis
- b) bullet points
- c) subject
- 8.Which term means: the short mark that joins words together, as in man-eating shark?
- a) hyphen
- b) synonym
- c) passive
- 9.Which term means: the mark (:) that introduces a list or an explanation?
- a) semi-colon
- b) colon
- c) active
- 10.Which term means: the mark (;) that separates two closely linked clauses?
- a) passive
- b) semi-colon
- c) ellipsis
- 11.Which term means: marks that set out the items in a list, one item per line?
- a) bullet points
- b) colon
- c) subject
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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.