Parts of speech

Question 1

The association(s) of a word that comes from a person, culture or situation.

Answer 1

Connotation

Question 2

A noun that refers to a group of people or things

Answer 2

A collective noun (the police, the government)

Question 3

A noun that is not the name of a particular person, place or thing

Answer 3

A common noun (table, book)

Question 4

A combination of 2 or more words, which are used as a single word

Answer 4

A compound noun (a flower shop, a headache)

Question 5

A noun that has a singular and plural form

Answer 5

A countable noun (house, road)

Question 6

A noun that does not have a plural form

Answer 6

An uncountable noun

Question 7

A noun that describes more than one person, place or thing and can be regular or irregular

Answer 7

A plural noun (boys, women)

Question 8

A noun that is the name of a person or place

Answer 8

A proper noun (Benjamin, London)

Question 9

A word that replaces or refers to a noun or a noun phrase just mentioned

Answer 9

A pronoun

Question 10

A word that refers to a noun and shows whether it’s near or far from the speaker (this, that, those, these)

Answer 10

A demonstrative pronoun

Question 11

A word which replaces an object noun or an object noun phrase (him, her)

Answer 11

An object pronoun

Question 12

Words, which are used instead of the name of a person (he, him)

Answer 12

A personal pronoun (he - subject pronoun, him - object pronoun)

Question 13

Words that are used to replace a noun and show that something belongs to someone (mine, his)

Answer 13

A possessive pronoun

Question 14

A word that is used when the object of a sentence refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the sentence (He cut himself.)

Answer 14

A reflexive pronoun

Question 15

A word that introduces a relative clause (the book WHICH I’m reading…)

Answer 15

A relative pronoun

Question 16

A single word or a group of words that act as the subject, object or complement in a sentence. Usually contains a noun and words before and after it that modify it (THE TALL GIRL ON THE RIGHT is MY SISTER.)

Answer 16

A noun phrase

Question 17

A word that describes and gives more info about a noun or pronoun

Answer 17

Adjective

Question 18

An adjective that compares two things (taller, bigger)

Answer 18

A comparative adjective

Question 19

An adjective that shows if smth is near or far from the speaker (this, that)

Answer 19

A demonstrative adjective

Question 20

What do -ing/-ed adjectives describe?

Answer 20

-ing adjectives describe things or people; -ed adjectives describe feelings

Question 21

The smallest meaningful unit of a language

Answer 21

Morpheme (swims = swim+s = 2 morphemes)

Question 22

An adjective that shows who smth belongs to (my, our)

Answer 22

A possessive adjective

Question 23

An adjective that compares more than two things (the best, the highest)

Answer 23

A superlative adjective

Question 24

An adjective/adverb that can be measured in degrees.

Answer 24

A gradable adjective/adverb

Question 25

An adjective/adverb that cannot be measured in degrees.

Answer 25

An ungradable adjective/adverb

Question 26

A word that describes or gives more info about how, when, where or to what degree smth is done (quickly, well)

Answer 26

Adverb

Question 27

A word which describes an action, event or process (like, go)

Answer 27

Verb

Question 28

A verb that is used with other verbs to make questions, negatives, tenses, etc.

Answer 28

An auxiliary verb (do, did, have)

Question 29

The infinitive form of a verb without “to”

Answer 29

The base form of a verb (go, like)

Question 30

The base form of a verb with “to”

Answer 30

The infinitive form

Question 31

What’s the difference between regular and irregular verbs?

Answer 31

Irregular verbs have their own ways of forming the past simple and past participle. Regular verbs change their form by adding -ed in the past some and past participle.

Question 32

A verb used with other verbs to show ideas such as ability or obligation or possibility (can, must, should, etc.).

Answer 32

A modal verb

Question 33

A verb that is used in reported speech to report what someone has said (advise, tell, suggest)

Answer 33

A reporting verb

Question 34

A verb that is made up of a verb and one or more particles (adverbs and/or prepositions), the meaning is not the same as the meaning of the individual verbs and particles that make it.

Answer 34

A multiword verb (get on)

Question 35

A type of multiword verb which is made up of a verb + an adverb particle (look after, get off)

Answer 35

A phrasal verb

Question 36

A word or phrase used with a noun to show an amount (a few, much, a lot)

Answer 36

Quantifier

Question 37

A word used before a noun, pronoun, gerund to connect it to another word (in, on)

Answer 37

Prepositions

Question 38

What is a “dependent preposition”?

Answer 38

They are particular prepositions that follow some verbs, nouns and adjectives (depend on, a book by, interested in)

Question 39

A word that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences (but, because)

Answer 39

A conjunction/connector

Question 40

Describe the two kinds of conjunctions.

Answer 40

Co-ordinating conjunctions link two main clauses or two other grammatical units which have the same grammatical status (and, but). Subordinating conjunctions link a main clause with a subordinate clause (though, while, because)