English language Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is a noun?
“A word that names people, places, things, or ideas.
Examples: cat, London, happiness.”
Name the 6 types of nouns.
- Common (dog)
- Proper (Paris)
- Concrete (book)
- Abstract (love)
- Collective (team)
- Compound (toothbrush).
What is a pronoun?
“A word that replaces a noun to avoid repetition.
Examples: he, she, they, mine.”
List 4 types of pronouns.
- Personal (I, you)
- Possessive (my, theirs)
- Interrogative (who, what)
- Relative (which, that).
What is an adjective?
“A word that describes a noun/pronoun.
Examples: blue, happy, enormous.”
What are the 3 forms of adjectives?
- Positive (fast)
- Comparative (faster)
- Superlative (fastest).
What is a verb?
“A word showing action, state, or being.
Examples: run, is, think.”
Name 3 verb types.
- Main (finite) verbs (eats)
- Auxiliary verbs (is eating)
- Modal verbs (must go).
What is an adverb?
“A word that modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Answers how, when, where, how much.
Examples: quickly, yesterday, very.”
List 4 adverb categories.
- Manner (slowly)
- Time (now)
- Place (here)
- Degree (extremely).
What is a preposition?
“A word showing relationships (time, place, direction).
Examples: in, on, after, with.”
What is a conjunction?
“A word that joins clauses/words.
Examples: and, but, because.”
Coordinating vs. subordinating conjunctions?
“Coordinating: FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
Subordinating: because, although, if.”
What is an interjection?
“A short exclamation.
Examples: Wow! Ouch! Hey!”
What is a determiner?
“A word introducing a noun (quantity/specificity).
Examples: a, the, this, many.”
List 4 types of determiners.
- Articles (a, the)
- Demonstratives (this, those)
- Quantifiers (some, many)
- Possessives (my, their).”
What is a morpheme?
“The smallest meaningful unit in language.
Free: dog (stands alone).
Bound: -s (plural).”
Give examples of prefixes/suffixes.
“Prefix: un- (undo).
Suffix: -able (comfortable).”
How can word class change?
Words can shift class based on usage.
Example: egg (noun: “I eat eggs”) → egg (verb: “He egged me on”).
