Grammar

Question 1

What is a Common noun

Answer 1

Common nouns classify things into general categories, like a car, dog or flower

Question 2

What is a proper noun

Answer 2

A proper noun is a type that refers to specific place or people and usually begin with a capital letter

Question 3

What is a concrete noun

Answer 3

A concrete noun is one that refers to physical things like people, objects and places - guitar, table, clothes.

Question 4

What is an abstract noun

Answer 4

An abstract noun is one that refers to ideas, processes, occasions, times and qualities; they cannot be seen or touched - happiness, week and birth

Question 5

What is a count noun

Answer 5

A count noun is a noun that can be counted and has a plural form such as a pen, lorry and cup

Question 6

What is a non-count noun

Answer 6

A non-count noun is one that refers to substances and qualities that can’t be counted such as traffic and information

Question 7

What is a Superlative

Answer 7

A superlative is an adjective formed by adding an “-est” ending.

Question 8

What is a comparative

Answer 8

A comparative is an adjective formed by adding “-er” or “more” to an adjective.

Question 9

What is a modifier

Answer 9

A modifier is a word that describes a noun, such as the “GARDEN” wall.

Question 10

What is the subject of a sentence

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The subject of a sentence is the person or thing doing the action

Question 11

What is the object of a sentence

Answer 11

The object of a sentence is the person or thing receiving the action

Question 12

What is a personal pronoun

Answer 12

A personal pronoun is a substitute for a persons name such as I, you, we,

Question 13

What is a possessive pronoun.

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A possessive pronoun shows possession such as mine, ours, yours, his

Question 14

What is a reflexive pronoun

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A reflexive pronoun is substitute for the object in a sentence such as myself, yourself, ourselves, themselves

Question 15

What is an indefinite pronoun

Answer 15

An indefinite pronoun is when an object doesn’t need to specified such as anybody, anything, everyone, somebody, nobody

Question 16

What is a interrogative pronoun

Answer 16

A interrogative pronoun is when questions are asked such as whose, which, what and how

Question 17

What is a lexical verb

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A lexical verb is a single verb expressing visual meaning such as walked, laughed and started

Question 18

What is a stative verb

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A stative verb is a verb used to show state of being a process such as believed, know and suppose

Question 19

What is a dynamic verb

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A dynamic verb is a verb used to show a physical state that can be visually identified such as hop, draw and run

Question 20

What is an auxiliary verb

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An auxiliary verb is a verb placed in front of the main verb to help them out such as ARE in are flying and WAS in everyone was flying

Question 21

What is a modal verb

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A modal verb is a verb used only in conjunction with the main verb such as can, shall, will, would, should, might

Question 22

What are the two main types of determiners

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the two main types of determiners are articles and quantifiers

Question 23

What is a definite article

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A definite article is a word such as “the” used when there is something specific such as the door, the boy, the house

Question 24

What is an indefinite article

Answer 24

An indefinite article is a word such as “a” used for something more general such as a door, a boy and a house

Question 25

What are quantifiers

Answer 25

Quantifiers are words which show a quantity such as six, a few, many and lots of

Question 26

What are the types of mood

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types of mood are imperative, indicative, interrogative, conditional and subjunctive mood

Question 27

What is indicative mood

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Indicative mood is when a fact is being given such as Patrick plays the guitar

Question 28

What is conditional mood

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Conditional mood is used to express proposition and is made up of the modal verb would such as I would like sushi for dinner

Question 29

What is subjunctive mood

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Subjunctive mood is used to describe a hypothetical situation such as I recommend that you buy a new dress (because the dress hasn’t been bought)

Question 30

What are antonyms

Answer 30

antonyms are words with opposite meanings

Question 31

What are hyponyms

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Hyponyms are words arranged in hierarchy of meaning from general to more specific. Hypernym is the category and hyponyms are the sub-categories

Question 32

What is a compound pronoun

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A compound pronoun is one with every-, some-, any- as a prefix such as everything something and anything

Question 33

What are the four types of adverb

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The four types of adverb are of manner, time, frequency and place

Question 34

Example of adverb of manner

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adverb of manner is slowly or cautiously

Question 35

Example of adverb of time

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adverb of time is now or tomorrow

Question 36

Example of adverb of frequency

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adverb of frequency is always or rarely

Question 37

Examples of adverb of place

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adverb of place is here or there

Question 38

What is an adverbial phrase

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Adverbial phrase is a phrase with an adverb as its main word such as - the child laughed loudly or they waited very impatiently

Question 39

What is a pre-modifying adjective

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A pre-modifying adjective is an adjective before the noun

Question 40

What is anaphora

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Anaphora is the repetition of words at the start of successive clauses

Question 41

What is a euphemism

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A euphemism is a word used to describe unpleasant things in a more pleasant way

Question 42

What is a triadic structure

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A triadic structure is a list of three

Question 43

conditional sentence

Answer 43

conditional sentence is when clause starts with "if" like "If they don't shut up, I'll...."

Question 44

what is a noun phrase

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a noun phrase is phrase usually beginning with determiner (the, a, an) and a noun is the most important word like "THE BABY is crawling over THE GRASS" or "we enjoyed OUR VISIT TO THE ZOO"

Question 45

what is an adjectival phrase

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an adjectival phrase is a phrase with adjective as most important word like "the sky was an OMINOUS SHADE OF BLACK" or "it was an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS sport"

Question 46

what is a verb phrase

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a verb phrase is a phrase usually made up of a main and auxiliary verb like "she HAD BEEN LAUGHING Stewart" or "she MUST HAVE NEEDED help at the time"

Question 47

what is a prepositional phrase

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a prepositional phrase is a phrase with a preposition like "she hid UNDER THE TABLE" or "it was a race AGAINST TIME"

Question 48

what is an adverbial phrase

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an adverbial phrase is a phrase with an adverb as its most important word like "the child laughed LOUDLY" or "the crowd jostled VERY IMPATIENTLY"

Question 49

Anaphoric referencing

Answer 49

anaphoric referencing is where a pronoun is used to refer to an earlier noun in the text

Question 50

cataphoric referencing

Answer 50

cataphoric referencing is when a pronoun is used to refer to a noun which comes later in the text