Parts of Speech

Question 1

names something: a person, place, or thing.

Answer 1

Nouns

Question 2

Type of noun that name things we cannot see, touch, or detect readily through our senses. (existentialism, democracy, love, angst)

Answer 2

Abstract Nouns

Question 3

Type of nouns that name persons, including animals (cousins, Roger Rabbit), places (beach, Chico), or things we can see, touch, or otherwise detect through our senses (smoke, beer).

Answer 3

Concrete Nouns

Question 4

Type of noun that identifies a particular person, animal, place, thing, or idea. Capitalized all the time. (Sierra Nevada Crystal Wheat, The Rooks and the Rangers)

Answer 4

Proper Nouns

Question 5

Type of noun that does not name a particular person or thing; rather, it refers to a whole class or type. (beer, teams, parks)

Answer 5

Common Nouns

Question 6

Type of noun that names a collection or group of things. (army, alliance, jury)

Answer 6

Collective Nouns

Question 7

a word used in place of a noun. Usually substituted for a specific noun, which is called its antecedent.

Answer 7

Pronoun

Question 8

Type of pronoun also refer to specific persons, places, or things (I, we, me, us, you)

Answer 8

Personal pronoun

Question 9

Type of pronoun that refer to general persons, places, or things.(anyone, no one, anything, nothing, every one, everything)

Answer 9

Indefinite Pronoun

Question 10

Type of pronoun that replace possessive nouns. Thus, Jamie’s Corvette becomes her Corvette. This never take apostrophes. (my, mine, our, yours, your)

Answer 10

Possessive Pronoun

Question 11

Type of pronoun that add emphasis. (myself, ourselves, yourself)

Answer 11

Reflexive Pronoun

Question 12

Type of pronoun that begins a clause that refers to a noun in a sentence. (that, which, who, whom, whoever)

Answer 12

Relative Pronoun

Question 13

Type of pronoun that indicates specific persons, places, or things. (this, that, those, these)

Answer 13

Demonstrative Pronoun