Key Term Definitions Part 2

Question 1

What are nouns?

Answer 1

Naming words that identify a person, place, thing or quality.

Question 2

What are Proper nouns?

Answer 2

The name of a particular person, place, organization or thing. e.g. London, Amazon

Question 3

What are Common nouns?

Answer 3

The generic name for a person, place or thing in a class or group. e.g. house, building

Question 4

What are Concrete nouns?

Answer 4

Words that identify something material and a physical object. e.g. dog, a football. Things that you can experience with the 5 senses.

Question 5

What are Abstract nouns?

Answer 5

Words that refer to an idea or concept that doesn’t exist and cannot be touched e.g. sadness, freedom.

Question 6

What are Modifiers?

Answer 6

Words that change or add information to nouns. e.g. he held a HUGE RED balloon (pre-modifying)
His balloon was HUGE AND RED (post-modifying)

Question 7

What are verbs?

Answer 7

Words that say what a person or thing does. They describe an action, state or occurrence.

Question 8

What are Dynamic verbs?

Answer 8

Words that describe an action. e.g. Joe is chasing the bus.

Question 9

What are Stative verbs?

Answer 9

Words about disliking or liking something or about a mental state. e.g. like, love, believe and have

Question 10

What are Auxiliary verbs?

Answer 10

Words that usually come before the main verb and adds more detail. e.g. to have, to be, to do.
I HAVE asked them to leave.

Question 11

What are Modal verbs?

Answer 11

Words that show if we believe something is certain, probable or possible.
e.g. can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would.

Question 12

What is the Active form?

Answer 12

When the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing receiving the action is the object. e.g. The teacher teaches the students.

Question 13

What is the Passive form?

Answer 13

When the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is included near the end of the sentence. e.g. The students are taught by the teacher.

Question 14

What is the Direct object?

Answer 14

The thing that has the verb done to it, usually a noun.

Question 15

What are adjectives?

Answer 15

Words that describe a noun.

Question 16

What are Descriptive adjectives?

Answer 16

Words that often give a factual description. Concrete nouns can be used in this way. e.g. wild, witty, amused and smooth.

Question 17

What are Evaluative adjectives?

Answer 17

Words that add a biased positive or negative opinion. e.g. plump, incredible, lovely and terrible.

Question 18

What are Emotive adjectives?

Answer 18

Words that convey a biased positive or negative opinion and also a strong emotional one. e.g. scared, wonderful, upset and overwhelmed.

Question 19

What are adverbs?

Answer 19

Words that give more information and describe verbs.

Question 20

What are adverbial phrases?

Answer 20

Phrases that describes the verb.

e.g. the farmer drove a tractor IN THE EVENING.

Question 21

What are Personal pronouns?

Answer 21

Words that refer to people. e.g. I, she, we, you and they. It is also included.

Question 22

What are Possessive pronouns?

Answer 22

Words that belong to someone/something. e.g. mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs. The dog is OURS.

Question 23

What are Reflexive pronouns?

Answer 23

Words that refer back to a person or thing. They usually end in self. e.g. You’re going to have to walk to school by YOURSELF.

Question 24

What are Reciprocal pronouns?

Answer 24

Words that are used when the subject consists of two or more people. e.g. each other and one another. We have to look after EACH OTHER.

Question 25

What are Relative pronouns?

Answer 25

Words that introduce a dependent clause and connects it to an independent one. e.g. who, what, why, whatever, whom and whose. Marie Curie is the woman WHO discovered radium.

Question 26

What are Demonstrative pronouns?

Answer 26

Words that point to a specific thing. e.g. this, that, these and those. Take this to the post office.

Question 27

What are Interrogative pronouns?

Answer 27

Words that ask a question. e.g. which, where, when and was. WHICH way do I go?

Question 28

What are Indefinite pronouns?

Answer 28

Words that do not refer to anything in particular. e.g. anything, anybody, anyone, something, somebody, someone, nothing, nobody, none and no one. ANYTHING is possible if you believe it.

Question 29

What are determiners?

Answer 29

Words that are followed by a noun. They indicate the kind of reference that a noun has. General determiners include the, a, an, any, other, another and what.

Question 30

What are Definite articles?

Answer 30

Words that indicate something specific.

Question 31

What are Indefinite articles?

Answer 31

Words that indicate something unspecific.

Question 32

What are Demonstrative determiners?

Answer 32

Words that are used to demonstrate the identity of the thing referenced by the following noun. e.g. this, that, those and these. THIS camera is mine.

Question 33

What are Possessive determiners?

Answer 33

Words that show who owns or possesses something. e.g. mine, his, hers, yours, ours, theirs. Is that car YOURS?

Question 34

What are quantifiers?

Answer 34

Words that indicate quantity. e.g. some, any, more, many, every, all, whole and less. He knows MORE people than his wife.

Question 35

What are interrogatives?

Answer 35

Words that are followed by nouns which they question. e.g. which and what. WHAT university did you go to? WHICH restaurant did you go in?

Question 36

What are prepositions?

Answer 36

Words which precede nouns to show the noun’s relationship to another word in the sentence. They describe the position of something e.g. above, below, for, next to, between, behind, under. It is a container FOR butter and The plane was ABOVE the clouds.

Question 37

What are Coordinating conjunctions?

Answer 37

Words that spring to mind when people think about conjunctions. They are used to join phrases together. e.g. and, but, for, so, nor, or and yet.

Question 38

What are Subordinating conjunctions?

Answer 38

Words that link a main clause to one that is less important. e.g. although, because, since and that.

Question 39

What are Correlative conjunctions?

Answer 39

Words that appear in pairs. e.g. either… or neither and whether… or…

Question 40

What is FATPP?

Answer 40

Form
Audience
Topic
Purpose - entertain, inform, educate and persuade
Perspective