Parts of speech

Question 1

What is a common noun?

Answer 1

The name given to things which you can recognise with your five senses.

Question 2

What is a proper noun?

Answer 2

The name given to specific/particular people, places and things.

Question 3

What is a collective noun?

Answer 3

The name given to a group/collection of nouns,

Question 4

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 4

The name given to concepts, ideas or feelings that cannot be recognised by the senses.

Question 5

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 5

A word that stands in the place of a noun

Question 6

What is a possessive pronoun?

Answer 6

Pronouns that show ownership

Question 7

What is a reflexive pronoun?

Answer 7

Pronouns that refer/relate back to a noun already mentioned in the

Question 8

What is a relative pronoun?

Answer 8

A pronoun that ends with the word ‘self’ or ‘selves’

Question 9

What is a indefinite pronoun?

Answer 9

A pronoun that indicates an indefinite amount,

Question 10

What is a interrogative pronoun?

Answer 10

A pronoun that asks a question.

Question 11

What is a demonstrative pronoun?

Answer 11

A pronoun that points to another noun or pronoun.

Question 12

What is a descriptive adjective?

Answer 12

The most common kind of adjective. It describes (duh!) a noun or pronoun.

Question 13

What is a Demonstrative adjective?

Answer 13

Demonstrates/points to a particular noun,

Question 14

What is an Interrogative adjective?

Answer 14

Asks questions (i.e. interrogates)

Question 15

What is a Indefinite adjective?

Answer 15

Indicates an unknown quantity,

Question 16

What is a Numerical adjective?

Answer 16

Numbers (duh!).

Question 17

What is a order adjective?

Answer 17

Adjectives to indicate order: Shows position.

Question 18

What is a Possessive adjective?

Answer 18

Shows ownership of a particular noun.

Question 19

What is an article adjective?

Answer 19

There are two types of articles

1. Indefinite article or/an
2. Definite article the

Question 20

What is an adverb of time?

Answer 20

Answer the question When?

Question 21

What is an adverb of manner?

Answer 21

Answer the question How?

Question 22

What is an adverb of place?

Answer 22

Answer the question Where?

Question 23

What is an adverb of reason ?

Answer 23

Answer the question Why?

Question 24

What is an adverb if negatio?

Answer 24

The words ‘not’, ‘neither’ and ‘nor’ are adverbs.

Question 25

What are adverbs that modify adjectives?

Answer 25

These are called adverbs of degree and answer the question HOW MUCH

Question 26

What are adverbs that modify other adverbs?

Answer 26

These adverbs tell you more about other adverbs in the sentence.

Question 27

What is a preposition?

Answer 27

something that show the position of one noun in relation to another noun

Question 28

What is a conjunction?

Answer 28

something that connects two words, phrases, or clauses together.

Question 29

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 29

conjunctions that join two items of equal importance

Question 30

What is a subordinating conjunction?

Answer 30

introduce a subordinate clause.

Question 31

What is an interjection?

Answer 31

expressions of emotion that perform no grammatical function.

Question 32

What is an adverb?

Answer 32

a word or an expression that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb.

Question 33

What is an adjective?

Answer 33

an adjective is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase.

Question 34

What is a noun?

Answer 34

a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things or to name a particular one of these

Question 35

What is a verb?

Answer 35

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence