6.8 Glossary quiz Questions 1–22

An apostrophe before an s at the end of a noun shows

• that a letter of a word has been missed out.

• that the noun being used is plural.

• that something belongs to a person or thing.

Capital letters are used

• to emphasise the important words in main clauses.

• to show that a noun is uncountable.

• to begin sentences and for names of people and places.

Cohesive devices include

• prepositions, verbs and adverbs.

• key words, examples and conclusions.

• lexical sets, pronouns and conjunctions.

We use a comma to

• show the end of a sentence.

• introduce a new paragraph.

• separate items in a list.

A draft is

• A a piece of writing that will be changed and corrected.

• B a piece of writing that has been planned but not written yet.

• C a piece of writing that has been corrected.

When you edit a text, you

• A focus on correct punctuation.

• B make changes to make it more understandable.

• C make it shorter.

An exclamation mark is used to show

• A the end of a sentence.

• B an unfinished sentence.

• C emotion in a sentence.

An extract is

• A a summary of a longer text.

• B a simplified version of a longer text.

• C a short piece taken from a longer text.

A full stop is used to show the end of a

• subordinate clause.

• sentence.

• phrase.

Note-taking usually involves

• writing down everything you hear or read in full.

• writing down the ideas you hear or read and commenting on them.

• writing down the ideas you hear or read in a short form.