word class

Question 1

noun and example

Answer 1

-a thing
-“car”

Question 2

adjective and example

Answer 2

-describes a noun
-“green”

Question 3

verb and example

Answer 3

-something that is done
-“jumped”

Question 4

adverb (2 uses) and example

Answer 4

-to describe verbs
“run quickly”
-to modify an adjective
“very noisy”

Question 5

interjection and example

Answer 5

-a word used to express surprise
-“oh”, “ah”

Question 6

determiner and example

Answer 6

-word that goes before a noun
-“a pencil”
-however some words can be both pronouns and determiners such as “his pencil”

Question 7

pronoun and example

Answer 7

-replaces the noun
-“it”,”her”

Question 8

prepositions and example

Answer 8

-describing the location of something
-“next to”

Question 9

conjunction and example

Answer 9

-joins two things together
-“but”
can be used to join two sentences to make a compound sentence

Question 10

concrete nouns and example

Answer 10

-concrete- physical nouns
- “ bus”

Question 11

abstract noun and example

Answer 11

-an idea
-“democracy”

Question 12

collective nouns and example

Answer 12

-singular noun that labels a group of things
-“herd”

Question 13

dynamic verb and example

Answer 13

-physical function or movement
-“melt”

Question 14

stative verb and example

Answer 14

-mental states or feelings/ senses
-“love”

Question 15

phrasal verbs and example

Answer 15

-verbs made up of more than one word
-“give up”

Question 16

comparative adjective and example

Answer 16

-stating that something is more than something else
-“prettier”

Question 17

superlative adjective and example

Answer 17

-offers the most of something
-“prettiest”

Question 18

evaluative adjective and example

Answer 18

-offers the opinion of something
-“interesting”

Question 19

defining adjective and example

Answer 19

-something that offers factual detail
-“yellow”

Question 20

time adverbs and example

Answer 20

-offers detail about when a verb was done
-“yesterday”

Question 21

manner adverbs and an example

Answer 21

-tells us how something was done
-“carefully”

Question 22

place adverbs and an example

Answer 22

-offers detail about where something took place
-“there”

Question 23

degree adverbs and example

Answer 23

-tells us by how much a verb was done
-“ a lot”

Question 24

frequency adverbs and an example

Answer 24

-tells us how often something takes place
-“often”

Question 25

subjective pronoun and example

Answer 25

• when a pronoun is the subject of a sentence
  -“I said hi”

Question 26

objective pronoun and example

Answer 26

-when the pronoun is the object of the sentence
-“Mary sang to him”

Question 27

possessive pronoun and example

Answer 27

-when something belongs to the pronoun
-“hers”

Question 28

reflexive pronoun and example

Answer 28

-refers to self
-“myself”,”herself”

Question 29

definite article (determiner) and example

Answer 29

-à déterminer that introduces a noun that definitely exists
-“the interesting book”

Question 30

indefinite article (determiner) and example

Answer 30

-introduces a noun that could exist or not
-“an interesting book”