Grammar Terms (Week 1)

Question 1

Adjective

Answer 1

A word that describes a noun

pretty, sad, tired, big

Question 2

Adverb

Answer 2

A word that describes a verb, adjective, adverb or clause (slowly…, silently…, very…pretty)

Question 3

Conjunction

Answer 3

A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses (and, but, or, after, when, while)

Question 4

Determiner

Answer 4

A word that occurs together with a noun and serves to express the reference in the context (a, the, every)

Question 5

Article

Answer 5

A small set of words used with nouns to limit or give definiteness to the application (a, an, the)

Question 6

Indefinite Article

Answer 6

Word used in English to refer to a person or thing that is not identified or specified (a, an)

Question 7

Definite Article

Answer 7

Word “the” used in English to refer to a person or thing that is identified or specified (the)

Question 8

Demonstrative Adjective

Answer 8

A word that indicates distance in place or time (this, that, these, those)

Question 9

Possessive Adjective

Answer 9

A word that indicates the possession, ownership (my, his, her, your, our, their)

Question 10

Noun

Answer 10

A word used to identify a person, place or thing

Question 11

Count Nouns

Answer 11

Things that can be counted and made plural (chair/chairs, book/books, pen/pens)

Question 12

Noncount Nouns

Answer 12

Things that are not countable and are always singular (advice, water, money)

Question 13

Proper Noun

Answer 13

The name of a person or place (written with initial capital letters - Mary, France)

Question 14

Preposition

Answer 14

A word indicating the relationship between two things which may be relating to space, time, grammar, metaphor (about, above, after, against, around, at, before, behind, for, from, in, into, of, to, under, up, with, within)

Question 15

Pronoun

Answer 15

A word that takes the place of a noun or noun phrase (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them)

Question 16

Verb

Answer 16

A word that shows action or a state of being (go, bring, be, study)

Question 17

Auxiliary Verb

Answer 17

A helping verb that is added to a action verb to indicate mood, voice, or tense (do, have, be)

Question 18

Modal

Answer 18

An auxiliary verb that indicates necessity, possibility, permission (can, could, will, would, shall, should, ought to, might, may, must, have to)

Question 19

Gerund

Answer 19

A verb with an -ing ending that functions as a noun (studying, thinking, going)

Question 20

Infinitive

Answer 20

A verb form that is not marked for time or person (often preceded by to - to go, to be, to sing)

Question 21

Intransitive Verb

Answer 21

A verb that does not take a direct object (sleep - She slept late yesterday)

Question 22

Transitive Verb

Answer 22

A verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning (tell - Please tell me your story)

Question 23

Participle

Answer 23

Can be part of a verb phrase or act as an adjective

Question 24

Present Participle

Answer 24

A verb + -ing (going, caring)

Question 25

Past Participle

Answer 25

-ed, -en, -t (seen, tired)

Question 26

Tense

Answer 26

Time of the action of the verb (past, present, future)