Word Classes

Question 1

Nouns

Answer 1

A person, place, thing, or idea

Question 2

abstract noun

Answer 2

names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic

Question 3

collective noun

Answer 3

names a group of people or things

Question 4

proper noun

Answer 4

names a particular person, place, thing, or idea

Question 5

common noun

Answer 5

A general name for a person, place, or thing

Question 6

Pronoun

Answer 6

Used to refer to participants in a discussion

Question 7

adjective

Answer 7

A word that describes a noun

Question 8

Adverb

Answer 8

A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

Question 9

Preposition

Answer 9

shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence

Question 10

Conjunction

Answer 10

A word used to join words or groups of words

Question 11

Fronted adverbial

Answer 11

Words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence, used to describe the action that follows.

Question 12

Types of fronted adverbial

Answer 12

time - after
frequency - twice
place - there
manner - softly
degree - barely

Question 13

Interjunction

Answer 13

expresses emotion and has no gramatical relation to the rest of the sentence

Question 14

Determiner

Answer 14

a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has

Question 15

types of determiners

Answer 15

indefinite articles
definite articles
demonstrative
Possessive determiners
Ordinals
Quantifiers
Numerals

Question 16

indefinite articles

Answer 16

A and An

Question 17

definite articles (the)

Answer 17

The

Question 18

demonstrative pronoun

Answer 18

points out a person, place, thing, or idea

Question 19

Possessive determiner

Answer 19

determiner which shows who the noun belongs to, eg: her, their, my, our etc

Question 20

ordinals

Answer 20

words that signal a numbered sequence of items

Question 21

Quantifiers

Answer 21

indicate how many EX. some, all, every, each, no, none

Question 22

numerals

Answer 22

numbers