Parts Of Speech

Question 1

What is a verb?

Answer 1

An action or state

Question 2

What is a noun?

Answer 2

The name of a thing or person

Question 3

What is an adjective?

Answer 3

A describing word, it describes a noun

Question 4

What is a determiner?

Answer 4

Limits or ‘determines’ a noun
E.g a, an, the, two, some, many

Question 5

What is an adverb?

Answer 5

Describes a verb, adjective or adverb
E.g. quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really

Question 6

What is a pronoun?

Answer 6

It replaces a noun
E.g. I, you, she, he, some

Question 7

What is a preposition?

Answer 7

It links a noun to another word
E.g. to, at, after, on, but

Question 8

What is a conjunction?

Answer 8

A word that joins clauses, sentences or words
E.g. and, but, when

Question 9

What is an interjection?

Answer 9

A short exclamation Sometimes inserted into a sentence
E.g. oh!, ouch!, hi!, well

Question 10

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 10

-A transitive verb is an action verb that has a direct object to receive that action
-it answers the question ‘what?’

Question 11

What is an intransitive verb?

Answer 11

Action verbs that do not have an object receiving the action

Question 12

What are the types of nouns?

Answer 12

-common
-proper
-concrete
-abstract
-count
-non count
-collective
-compound

Question 13

What is a common noun?

Answer 13

Any noun in the general sense
E.g. church, school, car

Question 14

What is a proper noun?

Answer 14

Any specific noun; always starts with a capital letter

Question 15

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 15

Any noun that impacts any of the five senses
E.g. chair, computer, St. Mark

Question 16

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 16

Any noun that does not impact any of the five senses
-happiness, anger, determination

Question 17

What is a count noun?

Answer 17

Any noun that can be counted
E.g. stars, pen, table

Question 18

What is a non count noun?

Answer 18

Any noun that cannot be counted
E.g. sand, water, hair, grass

Question 19

What is a collective noun?

Answer 19

Any singular noun that represents a collection of things
E.g. bouquet, herd, audience, army

Question 20

What is a compound noun?

Answer 20

-Any noun made up of more than one word

-open compound: has a space in between
E.g. real estate, bank account

-closed compound: has no space in between
E.g. cupboard, butterfly

-Hyphenated compound: has a hyphen in it
E.g. paper-clip

Question 21

What are the types of verbs?

Answer 21

-Action verb
-linking verbs
-verb phrases

Question 22

What is an action verb?

Answer 22

-Tells what someone or something does
-can express either physical or mental action

Question 23

What are linking verbs?

Answer 23

-Links the subject of a sentence with a word or expression that describes the subject

-A linking verb does not show action

Question 24

What are verb phrases?

Answer 24

-A verb phrase consists of the main verb and all it’s helping verbs (auxillary verbs)

-The words that accompany the main verb is called auxillary or helping verbs
E.g.
I had been walking