Grammar

Question 1

What are nouns?

Answer 1

“Naming words”. They are names we give to people, places, objects, ideas etc.

Question 2

What are proper nouns?

Answer 2

Usually begin with a capital letter. They refer to specific people and places. (E.g) London, Harriet, Othello.

Question 3

What are abstract nouns?

Answer 3

Refer to things that do not physically exist such as ideas or concepts. (E.g) happiness, fear, democracy, belief.

Question 4

What are concrete nouns?

Answer 4

Refer to things that physically exist, object we can see and touch. (E.g) chair, car, scarf, cheese.

Question 5

What are adjectives?

Answer 5

They are describing words. They described nouns.

Question 6

What are comparative adjectives?

Answer 6

Adjectives used to make comparisons.
E.g (end in -er/ more , than)

Question 7

What are superlative adjectives?

Answer 7

Adjectives used to make comparisons.
E.g ( end in -est/ most )

Question 8

What are pre-modifiers?

Answer 8

Adjectives that come before the noun.
E.g a hot day

Question 9

What is a complement?

Answer 9

An adjectives that comes after a stative verb and can be a post-modifying adjective. E.g I ‘seem’ angry.

Question 10

What are verbs?

Answer 10

Doing words. May refer to physical actions (dynamic verbs)

Question 11

What are stative verbs?

Answer 11

Refer to actions you can’t see E.g think, understood, know, contemplate.

Question 12

What are auxiliary verbs?

Answer 12

They are helping verbs. ( either, have, do or be) E.g He was thinking of her.

Question 13

What is a modal auxiliary verbs?

Answer 13

They are used in conjunction with main verbs and indicate such things as certainty, possibility, probability, requests, permissions, advice.
E.g You must see a doctor.

Question 14

What is a metaphor?

Answer 14

Non-literal language. E.g the exam was murder

Question 15

What are collective nouns?

Answer 15

A group of people

Question 16

What’s a regular adjective?

Answer 16

A regular adjective describes a noun

Question 17

What is an irregular adjective?

Answer 17

Something that doesn’t take the normal rule. E.g mouse-mice, goose-geese (plural) (to be)

Question 18

What does adverbs mean?

Answer 18

Describe/modify verbs (and adjectives), for (e.g) I’m really hungry- modifying the adjective

Question 19

What do adjectives modify?

Answer 19

Nouns

Question 20

What is a modifier?

Answer 20

It describes

Question 21

Do adverbs answer questions about the verb?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

How do adverbs answer questions about the verb?

Answer 22

Manner (how)- quickly
Place (where)- here,there
Time (when)- yesterday, today
Number (how often)- twice a week

Question 23

What does adverbial mean?

Answer 23

Does the job of an adverb (E.g) In the river or last week, 5 years ago.

Question 24

What are passive pronouns?

Answer 24

Show belonging

Question 25

What are co-ordinating conjunctions?

Answer 25

And, or, but- they join main clauses (E.g) I'm tired and I'm hungry, I like coffee but I don't like tea.

Question 26

What are sub-ordinating conjunctions?

Answer 26

All other conjunctions, they make subordinate clauses (which can't stand alone) (E.g) because I'm tired, although it's raining

Question 27

What do subordinate clauses need to make a sentence?

Answer 27

A main clause

Question 28

What are prepositions?

Answer 28

Tell us specifically the position or location of the noun. Prepositions require an object (E.g) she went down the road, It's in the box

Question 29

What are determiners?

Answer 29

Identify which nouns are being referred to (e.g) the, a, some, these, that, their.

Question 30

What are pronouns?

Answer 30

Words that take the place of nouns

Question 31

What are conjunctions?

Answer 31

"Joining" words. They link together different parts of a sentence.

Question 32

What are prepositions?

Answer 32

Words that indicate how one thing is related to another in terms of position, direction and time.

Question 33

What are examples of possessive determiners?

Answer 33

(my book, her book, etc)

Question 34

What are examples of determiners that convey quantity?

Answer 34

(some books, many books, three books)

Question 35

What are examples of demonstrative determiners?

Answer 35

(Demonstrating which items- these books)

Question 36

What is the subject of a sentence?

Answer 36

The person, place, or thing carrying out the action of the verb.

Question 37

What’s a dynamic verb?

Answer 37

One which relates to action (e.g) to run, to hit, to speak.

Question 38

What’s a stative verb?

Answer 38

One which expresses states of being or thought processes rather than actions (e.g) to be, to seem, to know, to mean

Question 39

What’s a direct object?

Answer 39

The person, place or thing which receives the action of a verb.

Question 40

What are transitive verbs?

Answer 40

Verbs followed by a direct object.

Question 41

What are intransitive verbs?

Answer 41

Verbs that cannot take a direct object.

Question 42

What’s a complement?

Answer 42

A stative verb followed by a noun or an adjective to complete the sense of a sentence.

Question 43

What’s a finite verb?

Answer 43

A verb form which can occur alone in a sentence

Question 44

What is a non-finite verb?

Answer 44

The present and past principles (e.g. loving, taken)

Question 45

What do finite verbs consists of?

Answer 45

All verb forms except the infinitive (e.g, to love, to take)

Question 46

What are the 4 sentence types?

Answer 46

Minor sentence, Simple sentence, Compound sentence, Complex sentence.

Question 47

What’s a minor sentence?

Answer 47

An incomplete sentence- omitting either finite verb or subject. (E.g) Students on the run (omitting finite verb “are”)

Question 48

What’s a simple sentence?

Answer 48

A complete sentence, containing one clause. (E.g) Trees are lovely

Question 49

What’s a compound sentence?

Answer 49

At least two complete main clauses each linked by a co-ordinating conjunction and, but, or or. (E.g) (She walks home) but (he catches the bus)

Question 50

What’s a complex sentence?

Answer 50

At least two clauses, one main, one subordinate linked by a subordinating conjunction. (E.g) (He ate the cakes) which (my mum baked)

Question 51

What does the subject of a sentence perform?

Answer 51

The action of the verb. (E.g) The car raced around the track.

Question 52

What does the object of a sentence tell you?

Answer 52

Who or what has received the action of the verb. (e.g) I saw the dentist

Question 53

What more does a complement add?

Answer 53

More information about the subject and usually follows the verb ‘to be’ or ‘to become’. (E.g) Her clothes are fashionable

Question 54

What do adverbials add in a sentence?

Answer 54

More information about the action of the verb. (e.g) Lucy slept soundly.

Question 55

What do clauses types contain?

Answer 55

subject and verb

Question 56

What are main clauses?

Answer 56

Can stand alone. Has a subject and a verb. (e.g) she left home

Question 57

What are subordinate clauses?

Answer 57

Can't stand alone, begins with a subordinating conjunction and has a subject and a verb. (e.g) because she had a lesson.