Parts of Speech w/ Examples

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

a word denoting any abstract or concrete entity; a person, place, thing, idea, or quality. The most common part of speech; they are called naming words.

abstract noun: home
concrete noun: house
person (police officer, Michael)
place (coastline, London)
thing (necktie, television)
idea (happiness)
quality (bravery)

Question 2

Count Noun

Answer 2

a noun that can be modified by a numeral and that occurs in both singular and plural forms, and that co-occurs with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, etc.

Question 3

Non-Count Noun (Mass Noun)

Answer 3

a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with an indefinite article (a or an).

Question 4

Proper Noun

Answer 4

a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities.

London, Jupiter, Becca, or Microsoft.

Question 5

Common Noun

Answer 5

a noun that refers to a class of entities as distinguished from a proper noun which is a noun that identifies only a single entity.

city, planet, person, corporation

Question 6

Pronoun

Answer 6

a substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns make sentences shorter and clearer since they replace nouns.

I, you, that, she, he, them, it, who, a thing

Question 7

Adjective

Answer 7

a modifier of a noun or pronoun. Adjectives make the meaning of another word (noun) more precise.

interesting, good, bad, ugly

Question 8

Verb

Answer 8

a word denoting an action, occurrence, or state of being. Without a verb a group of words cannot be a clause or a sentence.

washed, ate, studies, enjoys, listening, became, is

Question 9

Adverb

Answer 9

a modifier of an adjective, verb, or another adverb. Adverbs make language more precise by expressing manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where?, and to what extent?

loudly, often, quite, very

Note: Some grammarians describe adverbs as a “catch-all” category that includes all words that do not belong to one of the other parts of speech.

Question 10

Preposition

Answer 10

a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles.

in, under, towards, before, of, for

Question 11

Conjunction

Answer 11

a syntactic connector; links words, phrases, or clauses. Conjunctions connect words or group of words

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Question 12

Correlative Conjunction

Answer 12

Correlative conjunctions work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence

either...or
not only...but (also)
neither...nor
both...and
whether...or
just as...so
the...the
as...as
as much...as
no sooner...than
rather...than
not...but rather

Question 13

Interjection

Answer 13

a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. Due to its diverse nature, the category of interjections partly overlaps with a few other categories like profanities, discourse markers and fillers.

ouch!, wow!, damn!, hey, bye, okay, oh!, m-hm, huh?, uh, er, um, stop, cool,

Question 14

Article

Answer 14

a grammatical marker of definiteness (the) or indefiniteness (a, an).

Question 15

Definite Article

Answer 15

an article that marks a definite noun phrase.

the

Question 16

Indefinite Article

Answer 16

an article that marks an indefinite noun phrase.

some, a, an