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What are the 7 types of common nouns

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  1. Abstract
  2. Collective
  3. Compound
  4. Concrete
  5. Non-countable
  6. Gender specific
  7. Verbal
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What is a collective noun? Give an example

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Nouns that describe groups

e.g. - team, choir, squad, class

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What is an abstract noun? Give an example

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Things you cannot physically see or touch

e.g. - love, hate, happiness, sadness

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What is a compound noun? Give an example

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Nouns made up of more than one word

e.g. - court-martial, water bottle

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What is a gender-specific noun? Give an example

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A word that is definitely male or female

e.g. - actress, actor, waitress, waiter

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What is a non-countable noun? Give an example

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Nouns that cannot be counted

e.g. - food, music

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What is a verbal noun? Give an example

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Nouns derived from verbs

e.g. - a building, an attack

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What is a pronoun? Give an example

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A pronoun is a word used to replace a noun

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What are the 8 different types of pronouns?

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  1. Personal
  2. Interrogative
  3. Demonstrative
  4. Reflexive
  5. Possessive
  6. Reciprocal
  7. Indefinite
  8. Relative
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What type of pronoun are these:

‘this’, ‘these’, ‘that’

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Demonstrative

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What type of pronoun are these:

‘all’, ‘some’, ‘any’, ‘several’, ‘anyone’

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Indefinite

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What type of pronoun are these:

‘who’, ‘which’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘how’

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Interrogative

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What type of pronoun are these:

‘my’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘her’, ‘our’

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Possessive

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What type of pronoun are these:

‘which’, ‘that’, ‘whom’

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Relative

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What type of pronoun are these:

‘each other’, ‘one another’

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Reciprocal

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What type of pronoun are these:

  • words ending in ‘self’ or ‘selves’
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Reflexive

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What is a preposition? Give an example

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A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between two other words

e.g. - on, in, around, above, near, underneath, from

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What is a conjunction? Give an example

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Conjunctions join words (or groups of words) together

e.g. - and, but, or, also

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What are the 3 types of conjunctions, describe each ones function, and give an example of each

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  1. Coordinating - used to join individual words, phrases and independent clauses e.g.- and, or, but
  2. Subordinating - used to show the relationship between a dependent and independent clause e.g.- although, as, after, if
  3. Correlative - conjunctions that appear in pairs e.g.- either…or, neither…nor
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What is a determiner? Give an example

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A word that appears in front of a noun to modify it

e.g. - the, every, this, those, many

21
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What is an adjective?

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Describing word

22
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What are the 3 main and then 2 minor types of adjectives?

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  1. Demonstrative
  2. Indefinite
  3. Possessive
  4. Numbers
  5. The articles
23
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What is the main grammatical function of an adjective?

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To modify pronouns

24
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What is an adverb?

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A word used to modify a verb or an adjective

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What are the 7 types of adverbs?

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  1. Time
  2. Manner
  3. Place
  4. Degree
  5. Condition
  6. Concession
  7. Reason
26
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In this sentence, identify the adverb and the adjective

‘He ran the race remarkably quickly’

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Adverb: ‘quickly’

Adjective: ‘remarkably’

27
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What type of adverbs are these:

‘now’, ‘never been’, ‘daily’

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Time

28
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What type of adverbs are these:

‘everywhere’, ‘there’, ‘here’

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Place

29
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What type of adverbs are these:

‘easily’, ‘stealthily’

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Manner

30
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What type of adverbs are these:

‘farthest’, ‘more cleverly’

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Degree

31
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What type of adverbs are these:

‘if’, ‘unless’

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Condition

32
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What is an interjection? Give an example

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A word added to a sentence to convey an emotion or sentiment suddenly

e.g. - No, Hey!, Indeed, Good, Jeepers

33
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What is a verb?

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A doing word

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What are the 7 main types of verb?

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  1. Transitive
  2. Intransitive
  3. Modal
  4. Phrasal
  5. Auxiliary
  6. Stative
  7. Action
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What is an action verb? Give an example

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A verb expressing an activity that someone can actually do

e.g. - eat, play, run, dig,

36
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What is a stative verb? Give an example

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A verb expressing a state of being, rather than an action

e.g. - believe, feel, be

37
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What is a transitive verb? Give an example

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A verb that acts on something, it has a direct object

e.g. - Lee ATE the pie (the transitive verb ate and the direct object is ‘the pie’)

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