Word Classes

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A word that is the name of something such as a person, animal, place, thing, quality or action.
(Table, John, happiness)

Question 2

Proper noun

Answer 2

A noun that names a particular person, place, or thing.

Skye, Liam, Utah

Question 3

Pronoun

Answer 3

Any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context.
(He, she, you, us etc)

Question 4

Preposition

Answer 4

A word or phrase that connects a noun or pronoun to a verb or adjective in a sentence.
(Above, beside, under)

Question 5

Determiner

Answer 5

Comes before a noun, shows what type of reference the noun is making.
(The, an)

Question 6

Conjunction

Answer 6

Conjunctions show a link between one word, phrase or clause and another word, phrase or clause.
(And, in case, because)

Question 7

Interjections

Answer 7

Mostly exclamation words (Duh!)

Question 8

Verb

Answer 8

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

Call, is, know

Question 9

Adverb

Answer 9

An adverb is a word that describes or modifies a verb
most end with LY
(Arrives EARLY)

Question 10

Adjective

Answer 10

A word naming an attribute of a noun

RED tie

Question 11

Irregular Verb

Answer 11

A verb in which the past tense is not formed by adding the usual -ed ending (Awoken, beaten)

Question 12

Abstract Noun

Answer 12

Describes a feeling, concept or idea.

Happiness, truth, theory of relativity

Question 13

Subordinate Conjunction

Answer 13

Two or more subordinate clauses + independent clause

The cat sat on the mat THEN yawned

Question 14

Affixation

Answer 14

The process of adding a morpheme (or affix) to a word to create either; a different form of that word or a new word with a different meaning
(HoldING, PREorder)

Question 15

Suffix

Answer 15

A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word or root, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending.
(magicIAN, manageABLE)

Question 16

Free morpheme

Answer 16

A morpheme (or word element) that can stand alone as a word. 
(unCOMMON)

Question 17

Bound morpheme

Answer 17

A morpheme (or word element) that cannot stand alone as a word.
(DISability)

Question 18

Derivational

Answer 18

The process of creating a new word out of a base word, usually by adding a prefix or a suffix.
(reTRIAL)

Question 19

Inflectional

Answer 19

Adds grammatical information - FIX THIS

Question 20

Infix

Answer 20

A type of affix, that can be inserted within the base form of a word (rather than at its beginning or end) to create a new word or intensify meaning
(Fan-bloody-tastic)

Question 21

Prefix

Answer 21

A letter or group of letters attached to the beginning of a word that partly indicates its meaning
(NONsense, DISagree)

Question 22

Co-ordinate conjunction (FANBOYS)

Answer 22

Brings two different sentences together (clauses)

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So, Semicolon

Question 23

Predicate

Answer 23

The part of a sentence (or clause) which tells us what the subject does or is - the predicate is everything that is not the subject.
(Adam LIVES IN UTAH)

Question 24

Clause

Answer 24

A clause is a A and a verb.

ADAM MOVED TO UTAH after he went to uni

Question 25

Phrase

Answer 25

A group of words that stand together as a single unit, typically as part of a clause or a sentence. A phrase does not contain a subject and verb.

Question 26

Elision

Answer 26

The omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.
(o’er, disturb’d)