Parts of Speech

Question 1

Define- common noun

Answer 1

Common nouns are for ordinary common things that are around us (e.g person, car, desk)

Question 2

Define- adjective

Answer 2

Adjectives tell us more about the noun and they usually go in front of the noun (e.g the SOLID table)

Question 3

Define- verb

Answer 3

A verb is an action or a doing word. It tells us what the noun is doing (e.g Mary waves- Mary is the noun and waves is the verb).

Question 4

Define- auxiliary verb

Answer 4

An auxiliary verb helps the main verb. With auxiliary verbs, you can write sentences in different tenses. The main examples of an auxiliary verb is am, are, have, had, could etc.

Question 5

Define- definite article

Answer 5

‘The’ is the only definite article- e.g I sat at THE table. It is used because it is being very definite about which table you’re talking about.

Question 6

Define- indefinite article

Answer 6

There are two indefinite articles: ‘a’ and ‘an’- e.g I at AN apple. It is an indefinite article because it could be any apple.

Question 7

Define- conjunction

Answer 7

Conjunctions are joining words. Common conjunctions are: and, although, because, but.

Question 8

Define- plural noun

Answer 8

Plural nouns are used when there’s more than one of an object. Plural just means more than one (e.g shoes, hills, seasons).

Question 9

Define- proper noun

Answer 9

Proper nouns are for titles, names, people, places, days, months etc. They always have a capital letter (e.g Dr Collins, January).

Question 10

Define- abstract nouns

Answer 10

Abstract nouns are things like qualities, ideas and emotions that cannot be noticed through the senses (e.g happiness, fear, love).

Question 11

Define- concrete nouns

Answer 11

Concrete nouns are things or people we can see, touch, taste, smell or hear (e.g table, horse, computer)

Question 12

Define- infinitive

Answer 12

Infinitive refers to a basic verb form that often acts as a noun and is often preceded by the word “to.” An example is ‘to sing’.

Question 13

Define- preposition

Answer 13

Prepositions are words that tell us where something is. Prepositions go in front of the noun (e.g TO the shops, UNDER the mountain).

Question 14

Define- singular noun

Answer 14

A singular noun names one person, place, thing, or idea.

Question 15

Define- pronoun

Answer 15

Pronouns can be used to replace nouns (e.g HE read a book/SHE looked at the flowers).

Question 16

Define- participles

Answer 16

The ending of the auxiliary verb is called the participles (e.g He is sailING. I am walkING)

Question 17

Define- adverbs

Answer 17

Adverbs add to the verb. It tells us more about how/when/where the verb is done (e.g slowly).