Parts of Speech

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A noun is anything that names a person, place, animal, thing, or idea.

A noun can be:

1. common or proper (city, Davao; school, Pisay)
2. singular or plural (student, students; child, children)
3. compound (editors-in-chief; classroom; rainfall)
4. mass or count (sugar, spoon; water, glass)
5. concrete or abstract (food, hunger; wound; pain)
6. collective (class, faculty, group, team)
7. gendered (boy, girl)
8. possessive (teacher’s lecture, students’ work)

Question 2

Verb

Answer 2

A verb is a word that expresses an action or state of being; it connects the subject to the predicate.

A verb can be:

1. action verb (run, jump, hide, learn, study
2. linking verbs or BE verbs (is, are, has, had)

Note:
It is needed to use HAS or HAVE in composing verbs such as may have been or has been

Question 3

Pronoun

Answer 3

A pronoun is a word used to stand for one or more nouns.

A pronoun can be:

1. personal (he, she, them)
2. indefinite (anybody, none, all)
3. demonstrative (this, that, those, these)
4. reflexive/intensive (himself, itself, ourselves)
5. interrogative (what, whose, which)
6. relative (that, whose, which, who, whom)

Question 4

Adjective

Answer 4

An adjective modifies nouns or pronouns.

An adjective tells:

1. what kind (Physics book)
2. which one (that Physics book)
3. how many (one Physics book)
4. how much (enough Physics book)

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

An adverb modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.

An adverb answers one of the four questions about the word it modifies:

1. where (sit there)
2. when (will know soon)
3. in what manner? (answer quickly)
4. to what extent? (barely noticed)

Question 6

Preposition

Answer 6

A preposition introduces a noun, a pronoun, a phrase, or a clause that is considered an object in the sentence.

Example:

The students went inside the auditorium quietly.

“inside” is the preposition introducing “the auditorium”

He looked through the window.

“through” is the preposition introducing “the window”

Question 7

Conjunction

Answer 7

A conjunction joins words or groups of words.

There are three types of conjunctions:

1. Coordinating (FANBOYS)
2. Correlating (either… or; neither… nor; but… also)
3. Subordinating (because, although, if, while)

Question 8

Interjection

Answer 8

An interjection is an exclamatory word that expresses strong emotion.

Example:

wow!
ouch!
yuck!