8 Parts of Speech

Question 1

What are the 8 parts of speech?

Answer 1

Noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection

Question 2

What is a Noun?

Answer 2

A person, place, thing, or idea

Question 3

What is a Verb?

Answer 3

An action or state of being

Question 4

What is a pronoun?

Answer 4

a word that takes the place of a noun

Question 5

What is an Adjective?

Answer 5

a word or phrase that describes a noun

Question 6

What is an Adverb?

Answer 6

a word or phrase that modifies a verb, adjective, or pronoun

Question 7

What is a Conjunction?

Answer 7

words that join words or groups of words

Question 8

What is a Preposition?

Answer 8

words that show relationship between a noun or a pronoun

Question 9

What is an Interjection?

Answer 9

words used to convey emotion through some kind of exclaimation

Question 10

What is a proper noun?

Answer 10

Nouns that name SPECIFIC people, places, things, or ideas

ex. Maya, Paris, Rover

Question 11

What is a common noun?

Answer 11

Nouns that name GENERIC people, places, things, or ideas.

ex. woman, city, dog

Question 12

What is a collective noun?

Answer 12

Nouns that refer to GROUPS of people, animals, or things

ex. Audience, band, class, club, crowd, herd, team

Question 13

What is a possessive noun?

Answer 13

Nouns that show ownership

ex. Mom’s keys

(Mom’s)

Question 14

What is a reflexive pronoun?

Answer 14

Objects that are used to refer to the subject of the sentence

ex. I made myself a sandwich

(myself)

Question 15

What is an indefinite pronoun?

Answer 15

Pronouns that do not refer to a definite or specific person or thing

ex. each, everything, one, everyone, someone, anything

Question 16

What is a possessive pronoun?

Answer 16

Pronouns that show possession

ex. (When used alone)
mine, yours, his, her, ours

ex. (Used before nouns)
my, your, their, our

Question 17

What is a relative pronoun?

Answer 17

Words that introduce adjective clauses

ex. who, whom, whose, that, which

“This is the house that Jack build”

(that)

Question 18

What is are the 3 types of verbs?

Answer 18

Active (main/action) - ate, kick, have
Linking (main/state of being) - am,
Helping - will,

Question 19

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 19

Transitive Active - “John [kicked] the ball”

Transitive Passive - “The ball was [kicked]”

Question 20

What is a intransitive verb?

Answer 20

Intransitive complete - “The ball [rolled]”

Intransitive Linking - “John [felt] happy”

Question 21

What is a clause?

Answer 21

Groups of words that have both a subject and a verb

Question 22

What is an independent clause?

Answer 22

Clauses that can stand alone as a complete thought

ex. “My mom smiled”

Question 23

What is a dependent clause?

Answer 23

Clauses that cant stand alone as a complete thought

ex. “When I made dinner”

Question 24

What is a subordinating conjunction?

Answer 24

Words that join certain kinds of dependent clauses

ex. Although, whenever, if, though, even if, because, unless, since

Question 25

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 25

Words that join together sentence elements that are the same ex. (fanboys) For And Nor But Or Yet So

Question 26

What are correlative conjunctions?

Answer 26

Conjunctions that are used in pairs ex. either/or , neither/nor , both/and

Question 27

What is a temporal clause?

Answer 27

Subordinate clauses that express the reference time with respect to which the main clause must be interpreted

Question 28

What is a conditional clause?

Answer 28

Consist of a main clause and a conditional clause (sometimes called an if-clause)

Question 29

What is a comparative clause?

Answer 29

A type of subordinate clause that follows the comparative form of an adjective or adverb and begins with as, than, or like.

Question 30

What is a reason/causal clause?

Answer 30

Clauses that tell the reason why the main clause happened or was done

Question 31

What is an interrogative pronoun?

Answer 31

A pronoun used to ask a question ex. "[Who] are you?"

Question 32

What is an infinitive verb?

Answer 32

Any verb that is preceded by the word 'to' is an infinitive. examples: 'to love, to eat, to run, to believe, to follow, to laugh, to stare, to wonder

Question 33

What is an indefinite article?

Answer 33

An indefinite article is an article that refers to a noun without specifying it