Lexicology

Question 1

Nouns

Answer 1

Words used to identify places, people, and things. Can also be used to name qualities, ideas or concepts

Question 2

Pronouns

Answer 2

Words that replace nouns and noun phrases within a sentence

Question 3

verbs

Answer 3

Convey actions, states, or occurrences (doing words). Used to indicate time: past, present, future

Question 4

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 4

supports the main verb of a sentence. Used to construct grammatical tenses

Question 5

Modal verbs

Answer 5

Used to express the possibility, ability, intent, obligation, or necessity of any action occuring

Question 6

Adjectives

Answer 6

Helps to describe nouns and pronouns, providing attributive descriptions to provide extra info about them

Question 7

Adverbs

Answer 7

Words that help describe, modify, or qualify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and whole phrases and sentences. These act to express elements such as time, place, manner, circumstance, cause and degree.

Question 8

Prepositions

Answer 8

A word that expresses the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word or element in a sentence

Question 9

Conjuctions

Answer 9

Link words, phrases, clauses, and sentences together. Allows us to form complex ideas and sentences.

Question 10

Determiners

Answer 10

A word placed in front of a noun that helps to clarify the noun, specify quantity or indicate possession

Question 11

Interjections

Answer 11

A word or phrase that expresses feelings, including some requests and demands

Question 12

Abstract Nouns

Answer 12

An abstract noun names something you can’t perceive with your five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). It’s an idea, quality, or state.
Example: Love, freedom, happiness, justice, anger.