language terms and techniques (basic)

Question 1

noun

Answer 1

a noun is a person, place, object or idea

Question 2

proper noun

Answer 2

proper nouns are names, places, titles, days/months. specific and usually have a capital letter

Question 3

common nouns

Answer 3

common nouns are more general and doesnt have a capital letter, eg “book”

Question 4

concrete noun

Answer 4

concrete nouns are things you can see, eg table

Question 5

abstract nouns

Answer 5

abstract nouns are things you cant see, eg feelings/wind

Question 6

modal auxilliary verbs

Answer 6

modal auxilliary verbs are only used alongside another main verb, eg will, could, might

Question 7

adjectives

Answer 7

adjectives describe a noun

Question 8

adverbs

Answer 8

adverbs tell us more about verbs

Question 9

verbs

Answer 9

verbs are a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen

Question 10

pronouns

Answer 10

pronouns identify the subject, object of the sentence

Question 11

personal pronoun

Answer 11

personal pronouns identify people

Question 12

possessive pronouns

Answer 12

possessive pronouns state who the thing belongs to, eg- his, hers, its, theirs

Question 13

indefinate pronouns

Answer 13

indefinate pronouns are not specific to who they refer to, eg something, someone, anybody