Word Classes

Question 1

Nouns

Answer 1

a word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place e.g., ‘John’, ‘house’, ‘affinity’, ‘river’.

Question 2

Verbs

Answer 2

a word that describes what the subject of a sentence is doing

Question 3

Adjectives

Answer 3

a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun

Question 4

Adverbs

Answer 4

a word that describes a verb

Question 5

Pronouns

Answer 5

a word that can replace a noun in a sentence

Question 6

Possesive pronouns

Answer 6

pronouns that are used to indicate the ownership (possession) of something or someone by something or someone else

Question 7

Prepositions

Answer 7

a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object

Question 8

Determiners

Answer 8

a word that modifies, describes, or introduces a noun

Question 9

Conjunctions

Answer 9

words that join together other words or groups of words

Question 10

Plural noun

Answer 10

a noun that refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea

Question 11

Modal verb

Answer 11

verbs that indicate likelihood, ability, permission or obligation

Question 12

Abstract noun

Answer 12

describe conceptual things that cannot be sensed

Question 13

Proper noun

Answer 13

a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing