Word Classes Flashcards
Verb
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence
Adjective
a word naming an attribute of a noun
Adverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence
Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing
Pronoun
Pronouns are words like ‘I’, ‘she’, and ‘they’ that are used in a similar way to nouns
Preposition
A preposition is 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
Conjunction
a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause
Modal Verb
an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility.
Imperative Verb
The imperative verb is an action a speaker or writer wants someone else to do
Noun
A noun refers to a person,animal or thing.