Grammar

Question 0

What are the eight main word classes?

Answer 0

• nouns
• adjectives
• verbs
• adverbs
• pronouns
• conjunctions
• prepositions
• determiners.

Question 1

Within grammar there are how many main word classes?

Answer 1

Eight.

Question 2

Nouns.

Answer 2

Naming words.
There are four types:
- concrete
- abstract
- proper
- collective.

Question 3

Adjectives.

Answer 3

Describe nouns and sometimes pronouns.

Question 4

Verbs.

Answer 4

Doing words.
Verbs can be:
- dynamic (relate to actions)
- stative (express a state of being and though processes).
They can be:
- active ‘john hit the ball’
- passive ‘the ball was it (by john)’.
Verbs which support the main verbs are:
- primary auxiliary verbs (these alter the tense, can, have, is)
- modal auxiliary verbs (9) ‘can, could, will, would, must, may, might, shall, should and ought’
- ‘do’ is a dummy auxiliary.

Question 5

Adverbs.

Answer 5

Describes verbs and sometimes adjectives and other adverbs too. Usually end in ‘ly’.

Question 6

Pronouns.

Answer 6

Take the place of nouns ‘you, they, him, me, it’.

Question 7

Conjunctions.

Answer 7

Connecting words.

Question 8

Prepositions.

Answer 8

Define the relationship between words in time, space and direction. ‘Before, underneath and through’.

Question 9

Determiners.

Answer 9

Give specific kinds of informations about a noun.