word class Flashcards
noun and example
-a thing
-“car”
adjective and example
-describes a noun
-“green”
verb and example
-something that is done
-“jumped”
adverb (2 uses) and example
-to describe verbs
“run quickly”
-to modify an adjective
“very noisy”
interjection and example
-a word used to express surprise
-“oh”, “ah”
determiner and example
-word that goes before a noun
-“a pencil”
-however some words can be both pronouns and determiners such as “his pencil”
pronoun and example
-replaces the noun
-“it”,”her”
prepositions and example
-describing the location of something
-“next to”
conjunction and example
-joins two things together
-“but”
can be used to join two sentences to make a compound sentence
concrete nouns and example
-concrete- physical nouns
- “ bus”
abstract noun and example
-an idea
-“democracy”
collective nouns and example
-singular noun that labels a group of things
-“herd”
dynamic verb and example
-physical function or movement
-“melt”
stative verb and example
-mental states or feelings/ senses
-“love”
phrasal verbs and example
-verbs made up of more than one word
-“give up”
comparative adjective and example
-stating that something is more than something else
-“prettier”
superlative adjective and example
-offers the most of something
-“prettiest”
evaluative adjective and example
-offers the opinion of something
-“interesting”
defining adjective and example
-something that offers factual detail
-“yellow”
time adverbs and example
-offers detail about when a verb was done
-“yesterday”
manner adverbs and an example
-tells us how something was done
-“carefully”
place adverbs and an example
-offers detail about where something took place
-“there”
degree adverbs and example
-tells us by how much a verb was done
-“ a lot”
frequency adverbs and an example
-tells us how often something takes place
-“often”
subjective pronoun and example
- when a pronoun is the subject of a sentence
-“I said hi”
objective pronoun and example
-when the pronoun is the object of the sentence
-“Mary sang to him”
possessive pronoun and example
-when something belongs to the pronoun
-“hers”
reflexive pronoun and example
-refers to self
-“myself”,”herself”
definite article (determiner) and example
-à déterminer that introduces a noun that definitely exists
-“the interesting book”
indefinite article (determiner) and example
-introduces a noun that could exist or not
-“an interesting book”
