English

Question 1

Identifies, describes, limits or qualifies a noun or pronoun. For example, awesome, best, both, happy, our, this, three, whose and yellow are adjectives

Answer 1

Adjective

Question 2

Identifies, describes, limits or qualifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb or a group of words. For example, almost, also, eloquently, not, often, rapidly, really, someday, thus and very are adverbs.

Answer 2

Adverb

Question 3

Represents a group of people, animals or objects. Collective nouns are singular in form and take a singular verb when they refer to the group as a single unit. Common collective nouns include audience, government, herd and public.

Answer 3

Collective noun

Question 4

Refers to the classification of nouns and pronouns as masculine (e.g. man, he), feminine (e.g. woman, she) and neuter (e.g. laptop, it).

Answer 4

Gender

Question 5

The unconjugated, uninflected base or stem form of a verb, often preceded by to. For example, to consider, to extinguish, to be and to drink are infinitives.

Answer 5

Infinitive

Question 6

Designates an idea (immortality), a person (astronaut, Gretzky), a place (penalty box), a thing (canoe), an entity (Group of Seven), a quality (determination) or a point in time (tomorrow).

Answer 6

Noun

Question 7

Generally acts as a substitute for a noun. The words I, you, it, me, them, mine, yours, herself, ourselves, someone, anything, few, each other, who and which are all examples of pronouns.

Answer 7

Pronoun

Question 8

Expresses an action (break, call, tremble, skate), an occurrence (happen, occur) or a state of being (appear, become, seem). Auxiliary (or helping) verbs are placed in front of a main verb to form a verb phrase. They have several functions; for example, they may help to create a different tense (e.g. will and be in the verb phrase will be going) or add an idea (e.g. the idea of obligation expressed by must in the verb phrase must go).

Answer 8

Verb