Grammar - Lexicology

Question 1

Nouns

Answer 1

A word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place.

Question 2

Auxiliary Verbs

Answer 2

Minor verbs that support the sentence’s main verb to communicate complex grammar concepts like aspects of time or modality.

Question 2

Pronouns

Answer 2

A word that can replace a noun in a sentence.

Question 3

Verbs

Answer 3

A word that indicates a physical action, a mental action, or a state of being.

Question 4

Adjectives

Answer 4

A word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.

Question 4

Modal Verbs

Answer 4

Used along with a main verb to express possibility, ability, permission, or necessity.

Question 5

Adverbs

Answer 5

A word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or entire sentence.

Question 6

Prepositions

Answer 6

A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.

Question 6

Coordinators

Answer 6

Joins two words, two phrases, or two clauses.

Question 6

Conjunctions

Answer 6

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

Question 7

Subordinators

Answer 7

A word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause.

Question 8

Determiners

Answer 8

A word that modifies, describes, or introduces a noun.

Question 8

Interjections

Answer 8

A word or phrase used to express a feeling or to request or demand something.

Question 9

Function Words

Answer 9

Words that exist to contribute to the structure of a sentence rather than the meaning.

Question 10

Content Words

Answer 10

Words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur.

Question 11

Neologism

Answer 11

A newly developed or coined word which has started to fall into mainstream usage.

Question 12

Borrowings

Answer 12

A word or an idea that someone has taken from another language or from another person’s work and is used in their own language or work.

Question 13

Commonisation

Answer 13

Occurs when something that was previously a name, loses its capital letter and becomes a common, household word.

Question 14

Nominalisation

Answer 14

A type of word formation in which verb or an adjective (or another part of speech) is used as (or transformed into) a noun.

Question 15

Obsolescence

Answer 15

The process by which a language ceases to be actively used and is abandoned by its native speakers in favour of another language or languages.

Question 16

Archaism

Answer 16

The use of writing that is today considered outdated or old fashioned.