Word Classes

Question 0

What word describes words that are used to describe or modify nouns?

Answer 0

Adjectives

Question 1

What is a naming word and a basic division between Proper and Common forms?

Answer 1

Nouns

Question 2

What are verbs?

Answer 2

Known as ‘doing words’ as they often refer to physical actions.

Question 3

What is an auxiliary verb? Give examples.

Answer 3

Verbs that refer to what might be called ‘mental actions’. E.g the house STANDS on a hill.
That SEEMS unfair

Question 4

What is an adverb? Give examples.

Answer 4

Adverbs describe verbs. For example, she ran QUICKLY. He felt BETTER.

Question 5

What are words that take the place of nouns called? E.g she, it, him.

Answer 5

Pronouns.

Question 6

What do conjunctions do?

Answer 6

Conjunctions connect different parts of sentences together. E.g and, but, also.

Question 7

This indicates how one thing is related to another on terms of their position (at, on, opposite), direction (into, past, to) and time (before, during, after).

Answer 7

Preposition.

Question 8

Give the definition of a determiner.

Answer 8

They are like pronouns but precede nouns rather then replace them. They include the possessive determiner.