Parts Of Speech

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

Answer: Person, Place or thing

Eg. table, Sally, Melbourne

Question 2

Concrete noun

Answer 2

Answer: A noun that you can Smell, Hear, Taste, touch, see

Eg. Garden, light, tiger

Question 3

Common noun

Answer 3

Answer: General person, place or thing

Eg. Table, Bottle and Chair

Question 4

Proper noun

Answer 4

Answer: A specific person, place or thing

Eg. Scarlett, Melbourne

Question 5

Collective noun

Answer 5

Answer: Names of groups

Eg. Pride of lions

Question 6

Abstract noun

Answer 6

Answer: A noun that you cannot see, hear, taste, smell, touch

Eg. Hurt, happy,sad

Question 7

Singular noun

Answer 7

Answer: a noun that names one person, place or thing

Eg. Table, pillow

Question 8

Plural noun

Answer 8

Answer: names more than one person place or thing

Eg. Bananas, horses children

Question 9

Pronoun

Answer 9

Answer: a word used in place or things

Eg. He, Who, you

Question 10

Verbs

Answer 10

Answer: describe actions and doing words

Eg. Jumping, running

Question 11

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 11

Answer: are helper verbs

Eg. Has been, will

Question 12

Present tense verbs

Answer 12

Answer: tell us what is happening now

Eg. I am

Question 13

Past tense verbs

Answer 13

Definition- something that happened in the past

Eg. Swam, rode

Question 14

Future tense verbs

Answer 14

Definition- Something that happens in the future

Eg. Will, going to

Question 15

Adjectives

Answer 15

Definition- Describing words

Eg. Enormous, beautiful

Question 16

Adverbs

Answer 16

Definition- Words that usually modify a verb

Eg. Quietly, louder

Hint- usually ends in ‘ly’

Question 17

Conjunctions

Answer 17

Definition- are joining words

Eg. And, because

Question 18

Prepositions

Answer 18

Definition- link a noun or pronoun

Eg. Under, during

Question 19

Interjections

Answer 19

Definition- words that show strong emotion, greetings, agreement/ disagreement

Eg. Hello, wow