Word class and cohesion

Question 1

What are the different types of nouns?

Answer 1

Proper noun, common noun, concrete noun and abstract noun.

Question 2

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 2

things which can be touched or seen as distinct objects e.g, table

Question 3

What is a proper noun?

Answer 3

names of people, places or events, for example River Thames

Question 4

What is the difference between stative verb and action verb?

Answer 4

stative verbs communicate a less active state e.g have, seem but action verbs communicate the action executed by the subject of the sentence e.g sing, walk .

Question 5

What is the difference between animate and inanimate nouns?

Answer 5

Animate nouns refers to beings which are alive, such as a person, animal or other creature. Whilst, inanimate nouns refers to a thing or concept such as corn, sleep.

Question 6

What is an adjective?

Answer 6

Provide additional descriptive information about nouns and occur immediately before a noun e.g a little hut

Question 7

What is an adverb?

Answer 7

Provide additional information about a verb or adjective ,giving information about how, where and when an action occurs e.g please put your trunk in gently.

Question 8

What is a pronoun?

Answer 8

used instead of nouns to avoid repetition e.g it was my mother’s idea that she wrote the script.

Question 9

What is a determiner?

Answer 9

Gives additional information about a noun e.g some, this,

Question 10

What is a preposition?

Answer 10

Express relationships between nouns, pronouns, noun phrases and other parts of the sentence and these relationships are often of location or time e.g behind the door, before loading the dishes.

Question 11

What are conjunctions?

Answer 11

used to join words, phrases and clauses , for example because, but