Grammar

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

Names of people, places, things and ideas

Question 2

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 2

Things you can touch, see or measure
E.g. dog, house, chair

Question 3

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 3

Ideas, feelings and concepts
E.g. love, fear, birth

Question 4

What are proper nouns?

Answer 4

Refer to specific individuals, thing of which there are only one
E.g. Brad Pitt, London, Mars

Question 5

What is an adjective?

Answer 5

Describing words
Usually nouns and pronouns

Question 6

What is a pre-modifying adjective?

Answer 6

It comes before the word it is describing
E.g. big red bus

Question 7

What is a complement adjective?

Answer 7

Come after the word they are describing
E.g. the drug ecstasy is dangerous, man made and psychoactive.

Question 8

What are verbs?

Answer 8

Doing words

Question 9

Name the inflected verb bellow:
“I am walking”

Answer 9

Present participle

Question 10

Name the inflected verb bellow:
“She walks”

Answer 10

3rd person singular present tense

Question 11

Name the inflected verb bellow:
“I walked”

Answer 11

Past tense

Question 12

Name the inflected verb bellow:
“I have walked”

Answer 12

Past participle

Question 13

Name the three main auxiliary verbs

Answer 13

To have, to be and to do

Question 14

Name all the modal auxiliary verbs

Answer 14

Can, could, will, would, shall, should, might, must and may

Question 15

Name the different types of adverbs

Answer 15

Time, manner, degree and place

Question 16

What are prepositions?

Answer 16

They show the relationship between two things in time or space
E.g. words like in, between, with, before

Question 17

What is the subject in SVOCA?

Answer 17

The thing that is doing the action or being something
E.g. The woman went for a walk.
(The woman)

Question 18

What are participle clauses?

Answer 18

Start with the participle of a verb ending in ‘ing’

E.g. I spent the week there having a good holiday