English Grammar

Question 1

adjective

Answer 1

n. a word used to describe a noun, such as: sweet, red, or technical.

Question 2

adverb

Answer 2

n. a word or phrase that gives more information about an adjective, verb, other adverb, or a sentence (e.g.: gently, very, fortunately.

Question 3

conjunction

Answer 3

n. a word used to connect words or clauses (e.g.: and, if).

Question 4

contraction

Answer 4

n. a shortened form of a word or words.

Question 5

determiner

Answer 5

n. a word that comes before a noun to show how the noun is being used, for example: a, the, every.

Question 6

exclamation

Answer 6

n. a sudden cry or remark.

Question 7

noun

Answer 7

n. a word (other than a pronoun) that refers to a person, place, or thing.

Question 8

participle

Answer 8

n. a word formed from a verb (e.g.: going, gone, being, been) and used as an adjective or noun (as in: burnt toast) or used to make compound verb forms (is going, has been).

Question 9

preposition

Answer 9

n. a word used with a noun or pronoun to show place, position, time, or method (such as: from, to, on, after, etc.).

Question 10

pronoun

Answer 10

n. a word used instead of a noun to indicate someone or something already mentioned or known, e.g.: I, this.

Question 11

verb

Answer 11

n. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, such as: hear, become, or: happen.

Question 12

clause

Answer 12

n. a group of words that includes a subject and a verb, forming a sentence or part of a sentence.

Question 13

object

Answer 13

n. a noun acted on by a transitive verb or by a preposition.

Question 14

subject

Answer 14

n. the word or words in a sentence that name who or what performs the action of the verb.

Question 15

singular

Answer 15

adj. (of a word or form) referring to just one person or thing.

Question 16

past

Answer 16

adj. (of a tense) expressing a past action or state.

Question 17

present

Answer 17

adj. (of a tense) expressing an action or state now happening or existing.

Question 18

plural

Answer 18

adj. (of a word or form) referring to more than one. n. a plural word or form.

Question 19

person

Answer 19

n. a category used in the classification of pronouns or verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the person being spoken to (second person), or a third party (third person).

Question 20

subjunctive

Answer 20

adj. (of a form of a verb) expressing what is imagined or wished or possible.

Question 21

tense

Answer 21

n. a set of forms of a verb that indicate the time or completeness of the action expressed by the verb.

Question 22

phrase

Answer 22

n. a small group of words forming a unit within a clause.

Question 23

transitive

Answer 23

adj. (of a verb) able to take a direct object, e.g.: saw in: he saw the donkey.

Question 24

personal pronoun

Answer 24

n. each of the pronouns: (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and: them) that show person, gender, number, and case.

Question 25

subjective

Answer 25

adj. relating to a case of nouns and pronouns used for the subject of a sentence.

Question 26

objective

Answer 26

adj. relating to a case of nouns and pronouns used for the object of a transitive verb or a preposition.

Question 27

intransitive

Answer 27

adj. (of a verb) not taking a direct object, e.g.: look in: look at the sky.

Question 28

direct object

Answer 28

n. a person or thing that is directly affected by the action of a transitive verb (e.g.: the dog in: I fed the dog).

Question 29

gender

Answer 29

n. a class of nouns and pronouns in some languages (usually masculine, feminine, common, or neuter).

Question 30

number

Answer 30

n. a grammatical classification of words depending on whether one or more people or things are being referred to.

Question 31

case

Answer 31

n. a form of a noun, adjective, or pronoun expressing the relationship of the word to others in the sentence: the possessive case.

Question 32

indirect object

Answer 32

n. a person or thing that is affected by the action of a transitive verb but is not the main object (e.g.: him in: give him the book).

Question 33

masculine

Answer 33

adj. (of a gender of nouns and adjectives in certain languages) treated as male.

Question 34

feminine

Answer 34

adj. (of a gender of nouns and adjectives in certain languages) treated as female.

Question 35

common noun

Answer 35

n. a noun referring to a thing (e.g.: tree) as opposed to a particular person or thing.

Question 36

neuter

Answer 36

adj. (of a noun) not masculine or feminine.

Question 37

possessive

Answer 37

adj. expressing possession (e.g.: theirs, John’s).

Question 38

proper noun

Answer 38

n. a name for a person, place, or organisation, having an initial capital letter.