Word Classes

Question 1

What are verbs?

Answer 1

Verbs are a form of word class that show what you are doing and to describe a state, action or occurrence.
eg. Be, drive, grow,think, play, jump, etc.

Question 2

What are nouns?

Answer 2

Nouns are something that represent a person, thing, concept or place.
eg. Proper, collective, common, etc.
eg. Dave, London bridge, table, pen etc.

Question 3

What are determiners?

Answer 3

Determiners are a word that modifies a noun, giving the reader a little bit more information about the noun.
eg. Demonstrative, possessives, articles and quantifiers
eg. The, a, an,

Question 4

What are adjectives?

Answer 4

Adjectives are words that describe a noun(the name of a thing or place).
eg. Spectacularly, amazingly, great, fun, fantastic, awesome, jaw dropping etc.

Question 5

What are Adverbs?

Answer 5

Adverbs are a word that describes a verb close verb action or doing words
eg. Quickly, awesomely, amazingly etc.

Question 6

What are prepositions?

Answer 6

Prepositions are a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else.
eg. Under, over, behind, underneath, on, beside, overlapping etc.

Question 7

What are conjunctions?

Answer 7

Conjunctions are a word that describes/ connects 2 or more clauses together.
eg. Main clauses, subordinate clauses
eg. And, for, but,because etc.