Basic grammar

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A word used to name a person, animal, place or thing, e.g. mouse, ball, car

Question 2

Proper Noun

Answer 2

The name of a particular person, place or thing, e.g Edinburgh, or Papa

Question 3

Adjective

Answer 3

A word used to describe a noun or pronoun, e.g. shiny, new, red

Question 4

Verb

Answer 4

A word that describes an action or a state of being, a “doing word”, e.g. run, think, go, play

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

A word that describes and adds information to a verb or verb phrase, e.g. quickly, soon, very, too

Question 6

Pronoun

Answer 6

A word that takes the place of a noun, e.g. he, she, it, they

Question 7

Preposition

Answer 7

A word that indicates the relationship between two people or things, usually in terms of where they are, e.g. with, under, on, over

Question 8

Conjunction

Answer 8

A word used to link words and clauses, e.g. and, but, so, or, neither, because

Question 9

Interjection

Answer 9

A word that usually occurs alone and expresses emotion, e.g. oh, hello, ouch, phew, hurrah, help

Question 10

Definite article

Answer 10

A word used to refer to a specific person or thing, i.e. the

Question 11

Indefinite article

Answer 11

A word used to refer to someone or something in general, i.e. a, an

Question 12

Determiner

Answer 12

A word used in front of a noun to denote something specific or something of a particular type. Articles are also determiners, e.g. those, many, my, his, few