Parts of Speech

Question 1

noun

Answer 1

person, place thing, or idea

Question 2

common noun

Answer 2

names any one of a group of persons, places, things, ideas

Question 3

proper noun

Answer 3

names a particular person, place, thing, or idea

Question 4

compound noun

Answer 4

consists of two or more that together name a person, place, thing, or idea (may be written as one word, separate words, or hyphenated)

Question 5

concrete noun

Answer 5

person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses

Question 6

abstract noun

Answer 6

names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic

Question 7

collective nouns

Answer 7

names a group of people, animals, or things

Question 8

pronoun

Answer 8

takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns

Question 9

personal pronoun

Answer 9

refers to the one(s) speaking (first person), the one(s) spoken to (second person), or the one(s) spoken about (third person)

Question 10

reflexive pronoun

Answer 10

refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or an object of a preposition

Question 11

intensive pronoun

Answer 11

emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function in the sentence

Question 12

demonstrative noun

Answer 12

points out a specific person, place, thing, or idea (this, that, these, those)

Question 13

interrogative pronoun

Answer 13

introduces a question (who, whom, which, what, whose)

Question 14

indefinite pronoun

Answer 14

refers to a person, place, idea, or thing that may or may not be specifically named

Question 15

adjective

Answer 15

modifies a noun or pronoun

Question 16

an adjective answers

Answer 16

what kind? which one? how many? or how much

Question 17

a word is an adjective if it modifies a

Answer 17

noun or pronoun

Question 18

if a noun modifies a noun or a pronoun it is called a

Answer 18

adjective

Question 19

verb

Answer 19

expresses action or state of being

Question 20

verb phrase

Answer 20

consists of one main verb and one or more helping verbs

Question 21

action verb

Answer 21

expresses an either physical or mental activity

Question 22

linking verb

Answer 22

connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject

Question 23

transitive verb

Answer 23

has an object

Question 24

object

Answer 24

noun or pronoun after the verb

Question 25

intransitive verb

Answer 25

does not have an object

Question 26

linking verbs are only

Answer 26

transitive

Question 27

action verbs are ______ or _________

Answer 27

transitive or intransitive

Question 28

adverb

Answer 28

modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

Question 29

an adverb tells

Answer 29

how? when? where? or to what extent?

Question 30

preposition

Answer 30

a word that show shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun (called the subject of the preposition) to another word in the sentence

Question 31

prepositional phrase

Answer 31

a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object

Question 32

compound preposition

Answer 32

preposition that consists of two or more words

Question 33

conjunction

Answer 33

joins words or group of words

Question 34

coordinating conjunctions

Answer 34

join words or word groups that are used in the same way

Question 35

correlative conjunctions

Answer 35

pair of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way

Question 36

interjection

Answer 36

expresses emotion (no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence)

Question 37

an interjection is set off by a

Answer 37

exclamation point, comma, or commas