Glossary Of The Programmes Of Study For English At Key Stages 1 And 2 Page 15

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word
A word is a unit of grammar: it can be selected and
headteacher or head teacher [can be written with or without a space]
moved around relatively independently, but cannot easily
primary-school teacher [normally written with a hyphen]
be split. In punctuation, words are normally separated by
word spaces.
I’m going out.
Sometimes, what appears to be two words are
9.30 am
grammatically treated as one. This may be indicated with
a hyphen or apostrophe.
word family
The
words
in a word family are normally related to each
teacher – teach
other by a combination of form, grammar and meaning.
extensive – extend – extent
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