Parts of Speech

Question 1

singular or plural nouns (cat/cats)

Answer 1

countable nouns

Question 2

air, water, furniture, luggage

Answer 2

non-countable (mass) nouns

Question 3

names of people or places with a capital

Answer 3

proper nouns

Question 4

nouns usually treated as singular rather than plural (jury, team, government)

Answer 4

collective nouns

Question 5

continuous (present-progressive) verbs that act as nouns e.g., I like cycling

Answer 5

gerunds

Question 6

a quality, state, or action (happiness, beauty, youth)

Answer 6

abstract nouns

Question 7

2 nouns joined to make another noun (hairbrush, paper plane)

Answer 7

compound nouns

Question 8

(pronouns) someone, anyone, everybody

Answer 8

indefinite pronoun

Question 9

pronouns showing ownership (mine, yours, his, hers, its, etc)

Answer 9

possessive pronouns

Question 10

this/that, that/those

Answer 10

demonstratives or demonstrative pronouns

Question 11

myself, herself, ourselves

Answer 11

reflexive pronouns

Question 12

adjectives (one, fifty)

Answer 12

numerical adjectives

Question 13

big, round, red

Answer 13

qualitative adjectives

Question 14

“which” book?

“what” ideas?

Answer 14

interrogative adjectives

Question 15

what kind of verbs come in front of the main verb (be, have, do, shall, will)

Answer 15

auxiliary verbs

Question 16

referring to the possibility or necessity of an action (can, could, might, must, ought to, should, would)

Answer 16

modal verbs

Question 17

I was teaching English.

Answer 17

past continuous

Question 18

I have taught English.
I had taught English.
(plus, what’s the 2nd verb called)

Answer 18

present perfect
past perfect
(past participle)

Question 19

adding “ed” to a verb to make it past

Answer 19

regular verbs

Question 20

past tense not adding “ed”

Answer 20

irregular verbs

to eat, eaten

Question 21

A verb followed by a direct object.

The dog “ate” the food.

Answer 21

transitive verbs

Question 22

A verb that does not have a direct object.

She laughed.

Answer 22

intransitive verbs

Question 23

The subject does the action.

The boy hit the ball.

Answer 23

active voice

Question 24

The subject receives the action.

Answer 24

passive voice

Question 25

A verb phrase with a unique meaning.

take off, turn in, turn up, break in

Answer 25

phrasal voice

Question 26

Adverbs that modify the meaning of an adjective.

dangerously ill, very, rather, totally

Answer 26

adverbs of degree

Question 27

Adverbs used to comment on the whole statement.

Unfortunately, …

Answer 27

sentence adverbs

Question 28

Adverbs that describe when something happened.
yesterday, today, tomorrow
I’ll go over there tomorrow afternoon

Answer 28

adverbs of time

Question 29

on, under, between, next to, over

Answer 29

prepositions of place

Question 30

before, after, between such and such a time

Answer 30

prepositions of time

Question 31

Words used to join two sentences, phrases or words.

and, or, but, for, yet, so, neither/nor, either/or

Answer 31

coordinating conjunctions

Question 32

Words used to join a subordinate clause to a main clause.

if, when, because, since, although, unless, as though, that

Answer 32

subordinating conjunctions

Question 33

however, therefore, moreover, consequently, thus, in fact

Answer 33

adverbial conjunctions

Question 34

oh, phew, ugh, hooray, ah

Answer 34

interjections/exclamations