Section B: Language

Question 1

What are nouns?

Answer 1

A noun names a person, a place or a thing

Question 2

What 4 nouns do we get?

Answer 2

Proper noun,common noun,collective noun and abstract noun

Question 3

What is a proper noun?

Answer 3

*A proper noun names a specific person ,place or thing
*Proper nouns begin with a capital letter
*e.g.: Pretoria,James

Question 4

What is a common noun?

Answer 4

*A common noun names a every day object and a person place or thing
*e.g.:table,apple

Question 5

What is a collective noun?

Answer 5

*a Collective Noun names a collection or group of objects
*e.g.:a school of fish ,a forest of trees

Question 6

What is a Abstract Noun?

Answer 6

An Abstract noun names ideas or qualities(you cannot put abstract nouns into a box
*e.g.:joy,peace,wish

Question 7

What are pronouns?

Answer 7

Pronouns replace the noun it the sentence

Question 8

Why ?

Answer 8

It replaces the noun so that you don’t have to keep repeating the noun

Question 9

What are verb tenses

Answer 9

Present,past, future

Question 10

How do you use present tense

Answer 10

I am dancing

Question 11

How do you use past tense?

Answer 11

I was dancing

Question 12

How do you use future tense?

Answer 12

I will be dancing

Question 13

What is a verb?

Answer 13

A verb is a doing word
E.g.:run,jump,play,sit
(Can I ___)

Question 15

What is a conjunction?

Answer 15

A conjunction joins sentences or phrases together

Question 16

What are 3 types of conjunctions?

Answer 16

Coordinating, Subordinating,correlative

Question 17

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 17

It is used to connect words,phrases, clauses and sentences together.
*(For,and,not,but,or,yet,so)
•FANBOYS

Question 18

What is a Subordinating conjunction?

Answer 18

A Subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause
•( if,since,as,when, although,while,after,before,until, because)
*I SAW A WABUB

Question 19

What is a correlative conjunction?

Answer 19

A pair of words that join two clauses or groups of words to balance the sentence

Question 20

What is a prefix?

Answer 20

A prefix is a part added to the beginning of a word that changes the words meaning

Question 21

What is a suffix?

Answer 21

A suffix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a word that changes the words meaning

Question 22

What is a root word

Answer 22

The core part of the word is called its roots .also called the stem
It is also a word that can stand on its own

Question 23

What are synonyms?

Answer 23

Synonyms are words that are similar to eachother

Question 24

What are antonyms?

Answer 24

Antonyms are words that are the complete opposite

Question 25

What is an adjective?

Answer 25

Adjectives are describing words
*They describe the noun in the sentence

Question 26

What is an adverb?

Answer 26

An adverb is a word that describes a verb

Question 27

What are the 3 types of adverbs?

Answer 27

Adverb of time,place and manner

Question 28

What is an adverb of time?

Answer 28

•An adverb of time describes a verb relating to the the time (or when) it is happy
E.g.she ran EARLY

Question 29

What is an adverb of place?

Answer 29

•an adverb of time describes a verb relating to the location(or where) it is happening.
E.g.:she ran OUTDOORS

Question 30

What is an adverb of manner?

Answer 30

•An adverb of manner describes the verb relating to the manner (or how) it is happening
E.g.:she ran Quickly