Word Classes

Question 1

What do proper nouns usually refer to?

Answer 1

Specific people or places

Question 2

What are common nouns?

Answer 2

Less specific nouns than proper nouns,refer to types of people, places or feelings

Question 3

What are concrete nouns?

Answer 3

Things that exist physically; things you can see and feel

Question 4

What are abstract nouns?

Answer 4

Things that don’t exist physically; feelings, ideas and qualities

Question 5

What do collective nouns refer to?

Answer 5

Groups of animals, people or objects

Question 6

How is a noun shown to have a possession or be possessive of an object?

Answer 6

Use of an apostrophe

Question 7

What are words such as hotter and bigger known as?

Answer 7

Comparative adjectives

Question 8

What is an example of a superlative adjective?

Answer 8

Hottest and biggest

Question 9

What is the form from which verbs derive from? Give an example of this.

Answer 9

Infinitive, an example of this is ‘to be’

Question 10

What is a main verb?

Answer 10

A single verb in a sentence that expresses the main meaning

Question 11

What are auxiliary verbs? Where are they placed in a sentence?

Answer 11

‘Helping verbs’, these are placed before the main verb

Question 12

What are the only 3 primary verbs?

Answer 12

Be, have and do

Question 13

When are modal auxiliaries (can, will, shall) used?

Answer 13

Only in conjunction with a main verb

Question 14

What is emphasised when an active verb is used?

Answer 14

The person or thing performing the action

Question 15

What is emphasised when the passive verb is used?

Answer 15

The person or thing to which something something has happened to

Question 16

What do personal pronouns do?

Answer 16

Replace the subject or object of a sentence

Question 17

What pronouns show a subject possessing an object?

Answer 17

Possessive pronouns

Question 18

What do reflexive pronouns indicate?

Answer 18

That the object and the subject of the sentence are the same

Question 19

What do demonstrative nouns do?

Answer 19

‘Point’ at something or someone

Question 20

What type of pronouns don’t refer to specific persons and things?

Answer 20

Indefinite pronouns

Question 21

What do relative pronouns do? And where are they placed next to the noun?

Answer 21

Link a sentence together, they are placed after the noun

Question 22

What are 4 examples of interrogative pronouns?

Answer 22

Who, whose, which and what

Question 23

What are conjunctions?

Answer 23

‘Joining words’

Question 24

What are 3 examples of coordinating conjunctions?

Answer 24

And, but, or

Question 25

What do subordinating conjunctions do?

Answer 25

Connect a subordinate clause and main clause

Question 26

What do prepositions indicate?

Answer 26

How one thing is related to something else

Question 27

Where are determiners placed in a sentence?

Answer 27

Before nouns

Question 28

What do other determiners refer to, that aren’t possessive or demonstrative?

Answer 28

Quantity, either specifically (one, two, three) or vaguely (few, many)