Parts of speech 9

Question 1

What is a common noun?

Answer 1

Things you can recognise with your 5 sense

Question 2

What are the four types of nouns?

Answer 2

Common noun, proper noun, collective noun, and abstract noun

Question 3

What is a proper noun?

Answer 3

Specific / particular people, place, things. Important and have a capital letter

Question 4

What is a collective noun?

Answer 4

The name given to a group/collective of nouns.

Question 5

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 5

Names given to concepts, ideas or feelings. Cannot be recognised by senses

Question 6

What are pronouns?

Answer 6

Takes the place of a noun. To avoid repitition

Question 7

What are personal pronouns?

Answer 7

Stands for a person. Eg. I, you, he, she, they, them, it, one

Question 8

What is a possesive pronoun?

Answer 8

Shows ownership. Eg. mine, his, hers, theirs

Question 9

What is a relative pronoun?

Answer 9

Acts as a conjunction. Refers/relates back to a noun already mentioned. The teacher who screams. Which

Question 10

What are reflexive pronouns?

Answer 10

Ends with self or selves. Doing something to yourself. Eg. himself, herself, themselves

Question 11

What are indefinite pronouns?

Answer 11

Indicates an indefinite amount. Eg. few, some, many, someone, nobody

Question 12

What are interrogative pronouns?

Answer 12

Asks a question. Who? which? what? whose?

Question 13

What are demonstrative pronouns?

Answer 13

Shows direction. Eg. this, that, those, these

Question 14

What are adjectives?

Answer 14

Qualify nouns and pronouns

Question 15

What are descriptive adjectives?

Answer 15

Most common type of adjective. Describes a noun or pronoun. Eg. green, old, tall and short

Question 16

What are demonstrative adjectives?

Answer 16

Points to a particular noun. Must be followed by a noun. Eg. this person, that example, these things, those deliquents

Question 17

What is an interrogative adjective?

Answer 17

Asks questions. Followed by a noun. Eg. which pen? whose car?

Question 18

What are indefinite adjectives?

Answer 18

Unknown quantity. Followed by a noun. Eg. some people, few places

Question 19

What are numerical adjectives?

Answer 19

Numbers. Eg. seven brides, a million bucks

Question 20

What are adjectives to indicate order?

Answer 20

Shows position. Eg. first team, last place, final answer

Question 21

What are possessive adjectives?

Answer 21

Shows ownership of a particular noun. Eg. my mistake, your house, their problem

Question 22

Pronoun vs adjective?

Answer 22

The adjective always come right in front of the noun

Question 23

What are definite articles?

Answer 23

The

Question 24

What are indefinite articles?

Answer 24

A or an

Question 25

What are finite verbs?

Answer 25

Shows number, tense and subject. Can stand on its own

Question 26

What is translative?

Answer 26

Followed by a direct object. Eg. he crashed the car.

Question 27

What is intranslative?

Answer 27

Not followed by a direct object. Eg. he crashed into a tree

Question 28

What are non-finite verbs?

Answer 28

Infinitives and participles

Question 29

What are infinitives?

Answer 29

To… (never split an infinitive). Eg. to laugh, to eat

Question 30

What are present participles?

Answer 30

End in ‘ing’. Eg. laughing, eating, swimming

Question 31

What are past participles?

Answer 31

End in ed/en/t. Eg. laughed, eaten, spent

Question 32

What are gerunds?

Answer 32

Verbal nouns. Eg laughing is good for you.

Question 33

What are gerundives?

Answer 33

Verbal adjectives. Eg. the laughing hyena

Question 34

What are auxiliary verbs?

Answer 34

Help non-finite verbs become finite verbs.

Question 35

What are adverbs?

Answer 35

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs (give us more information). Three types of adverbs

Question 36

What are adverbs that modify verbs?

Answer 36

• Adverbs of time
• Adverbs of manner
• Adverbs of place
• Adverbs of reason
• Adverbs of negation

Question 37

What are adverbs of time?

Answer 37

Answer the question when? Eg. I ate snails yesterday

Question 38

What are adverbs of manner?

Answer 38

Answer the question how? Eg. I ate snails cautiosly

Question 39

What are adverbs of place?

Answer 39

Answer the question where? Eg. I found snails there

Question 40

What are adverbs of reason?

Answer 40

Answer the question why? Eg. due

Question 41

What are adverbs pf negation?

Answer 41

The words not, nor or neither. Eg. I will not eat snails again

Question 42

What are the second types of adverbs?

Answer 42

Adverb that modify adjectives

Question 43

What are adverbs of degree?

Answer 43

Answer the question how much? Eg. That girl is incredibly beautiful.. Incredibly

Question 44

What is the third group of adverbs?

Answer 44

Adverbs that modify other adverbs

Question 45

What are adverbs at modify other adverbs?

Answer 45

Tells you more about the other adverbs. Eg. He runs terribly quickly. Terrible

Question 46

What are prepositions?

Answer 46

Shows position of one noun in relation to another. Direction

Question 47

What are examples of prepositions?

Answer 47

Over, above, on,out, outside, against, of, under, beneath, below, next to, behind, inside, in, through

Difficult examples:

By, for, of, to, with, about, at, from

Question 48

What are conjunctions?

Answer 48

connects two words, phrases or clauses. co-ordinating and subordinating

Question 49

What are co-ordinating conjunctions?

Answer 49

FANBOYS!

F-for

A-and

N-nor

B-but

O-or

Y-yet

S-so

Question 50

What are suboridinating conjunction?

Answer 50

Attach themselves to subordinate clauses, cannot separate. After, although, however, if, unless, when, even, though, while, who,

Question 51

What are interjections?

Answer 51

Expressions of emotion, no grammatical function. Usually ends in !, Word or phrases. Eish! yoh! well! eina! ouch!