Parts of Speech Terms

Question 0

Pronoun

Answer 0

A word that takes the place of a noun.

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

Name of person, place, thing or idea.

Question 2

Subject Pronoun

Answer 2

Replace subject nouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they).

Question 3

Object Pronoun

Answer 3

Replace object nouns (me, you, him, her, it, us, them).

Question 4

Reflexive Pronoun

Answer 4

Personal pronoun + self/selves (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves.

Question 5

Possessive Pronoun

Answer 5

Shows ownership (my, our, your, his, her, its, their, mine, ours, yours, his, hers, theirs).

Question 6

Demonstrative Pronoun

Answer 6

Used to demonstrate/point out (this, that, these, those).

Question 7

Indefinite Pronoun

Answer 7

General pronouns; don’t have specific antecedents (enough, few, fewer, less, little, many, much, several, more, most, all, both, every, each, any, either, neither, none , some, one [and other cardinal numbers]).

Question 8

Interrogative Pronoun

Answer 8

Used to interrogate (what, which, who, whom, whose).

Question 9

Relative Pronoun

Answer 9

Used to introduce a dependent (subordinate) adjectival clause (also called a relative clause) that modifies the noun that is the antecedent of the relative pronoun (that, which, who, whom, whose).

Question 10

Adjective

Answer 10

A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

Question 11

Verb

Answer 11

A word that shows action or links a subject to a subject compliment (shows a state or condition of being).

Question 12

Adverb

Answer 12

A word that modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

Question 13

Preposition

Answer 13

A word that shoes the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence.

Question 14

Name the simple prepositions

Answer 14

Aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, as, at , atop, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but (except) by concerning, despite, down, during, except, for, from, in, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, per, regarding, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon, with, within, without

Question 15

Conjunction

Answer 15

A word that joins two words or two groups of words.

Question 16

Coordinating Conjunction

Answer 16

Joins equals (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).

Question 17

Subordinating Conjunction

Answer 17

Joins unequals (if, as, since, while, although, even though, after, before, as if, as long as, as soon as, provided that, when, because).

Question 18

Correlative Conjunction

Answer 18

Multiple word conjunctions (either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also, both/and).

Question 19

Conjunctive Adverbs

Answer 19

Act as both conjunctions and adverbs (however, furthermore, moreover, nevertheless, accordingly, therefore).

Question 20

Interjection

Answer 20

A word that shows emotion but that has no grammatical function.