Literacy puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. meaning more than one thing
  2. 6. can only be female
  3. 8. posh word for opposite
  4. 10. to shorten words to just intitial letters
  5. 12. forms part of a complex sentence
  6. 15. full stop, exclamation mark, comma, question mark etc
  7. 16. The actual name of a person, place or thing such as months of the year, towns, cities, countries, famous landmarks
  8. 19. a figure of speech that compares two things or persons which are not similar.
  9. 20. noun can be either male or female
  10. 21. can only be a male
Down
  1. 1. noun word given to describe a group of nouns
  2. 2. a joining word you use to join two sentences together
  3. 4. must be used at the start of a sentence or for someone's name
  4. 5. describing word
  5. 7. when something is listed from A-Z
  6. 9. a doing or happening word
  7. 11. something that will happen in the future
  8. 12. only one of something
  9. 13. what someone is reported to say.
  10. 14. two words joined together to make a new word with a new meaning
  11. 15. something that has already happened
  12. 17. what someone actually says
  13. 18. words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings
  14. 22. words with similar meanings