Word Classes

Question 1

Preposition

Answer 1

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 2

Adjective

Answer 2

a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.

Question 3

Adverb

Answer 3

A adjective that describes a verb

Question 4

Verb

Answer 4

An action or doing word

Question 5

Noun

Answer 5

A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Noah Webster), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice), or an action (yodeling).

Question 6

Pronoun

Answer 6

a word that stands in for a noun, often to avoid the need to repeat the same noun over and over. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to people, things, concepts, and places.

Question 7

Determiner

Answer 7

a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.

Question 8

Conjunction

Answer 8

a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).

Question 9

Proper noun

Answer 9

proper noun is a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing. To distinguish them from common nouns, proper nouns are always capitalised in English.

Question 10

Abstract noun

Answer 10

An abstract noun is a noun that refers to something non-physical – something conceptual that you can’t perceive directly with your senses.