Parts of Speech

Question 1

Common noun

Answer 1

A common noun is a non-specific person, place, or thing.

Examples: dog and girl

Question 2

Proper noun

Answer 2

A name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with an initial capital letter.
Examples: Jane, London, and Oxfam.

Question 3

Abstract noun

Answer 3

A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
Examples: truth, danger, happiness.

Question 4

Collective noun

Answer 4

A count noun that denotes a group of individuals.

Examples: assembly, family, and crew.

Question 5

Pronoun

Answer 5

A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).

Question 6

Adjective

Answer 6

A word naming an attribute of a noun.

Examples: sweet, red, and technical.

Question 7

Comparative

Answer 7

Comparative adjectives are used to compare differences between the two objects they modify.
Examples: larger, smaller, faster, and higher.

Question 8

Superlative

Answer 8

Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality. They are used in sentences where a subject is compared to a group of objects.
Examples: the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest.

Question 9

Verb

Answer 9

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.

Examples: hear, become, and happen.

Question 10

Adverb

Answer 10

A word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree.
Examples: gently, here, now, and very.

Question 11

Article; indefinite

Answer 11

The indefinite article (a, an) is used before a noun that is general or when its identity is not known.
Example: I think an animal is in the garage.

Question 12

Article; definite

Answer 12

The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader.
Example: The boy sitting next to me raised his hand.

Question 13

Verb tense; past

Answer 13

Past tense verbs refer to actions or events in the past.

Examples: Accepted, asked, felt.

Question 14

Verb tense; present

Answer 14

The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous.
Examples: see, feel, go.

Question 15

Verb tense; future

Answer 15

To describe an action that will happen in the future.

Examples: Will see, will accept, I will be.

Question 16

Conjunctions

Answer 16

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
Examples: and, but, if.

Question 17

Preposition

Answer 17

a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.
Example: after = preposition. ‘she arrived after dinner’.