terminology

Question 1

Proper Nouns

Answer 1

specific people
and places: Paris, Andrew, Venus

Question 2

Concrete Nouns

Answer 2

things that exist
physically:
computer, house, dog

Question 3

Abstract Nouns

Answer 3

things that do not exist physically;
feelings, ideas and qualities.

Question 4

Collective Noun

Answer 4

groups of people, animals or objects: team, family, flock, gaggle, litter, herd

Question 5

Pre-modifying adjectives

Answer 5

Come before a
noun to describe it

Question 6

Post-modifying adjectives

Answer 6

Come after the
noun to describe it

Question 7

Comparative Adjectives

Answer 7

Compare one noun to another e.g.
bigger, smaller

Question 8

Superlative Adjectives

Answer 8

The adjective is the least or the most
e.g. ‘biggest’,
‘strongest’

Question 9

Noun Phrase

Answer 9

Nouns modified by adjectives that
could be replaced by a pronoun e.g. ‘the beautiful
animal was kept in a cage’

Question 10

Dynamic verbs

Answer 10

A verb you can
physically see e.g. running, walking

Question 11

Stative Verbs

Answer 11

A verb that is a
state not an action e.g. thinking,
wondering

Question 12

Transitive verbs

Answer 12

A type of dynamic verb that requires a noun e.g. ‘she
kicked the ball

Question 13

Intransitive verbs

Answer 13

Don’t require a
noun e.g she
sneezed, she
laughed

Question 14

Infinitive verbs

Answer 14

A verb you can’t tell the tense from e.g. to wake, to run, to love

Question 15

Finite verbs

Answer 15

A verb you can tell the tense of e.g.
she was waiting

Question 16

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 16

These help us
understand the
tense of another
verb. There are only three – be, do,
have.

Question 17

Modal Auxiliary verbs

Answer 17

These tell you the necessity of
possibility attached to a verb e.g.
should, could,
would, may, might

Question 18

Adverbs

Answer 18

Modify verbs by
telling us the
manner, time,
place, frequency, degree, quantity or evaluation of a
verb

Question 19

Pronouns

Answer 19

Replace the noun in a sentence. Harry went to school
becomes he went to school, the
pronoun replaces Harry.

Question 20

Personal Pronouns

Answer 20

Replaces the
subject or object in a sentence e.g. I, we, me, him

Question 21

Reflexive pronoun

Answer 21

Indicate object of a verb is the same as the subject of the sentence e.g. ‘-
self/-selves in
themselves’ like in ‘they were going to do it themselves

Question 22

Indefinite pronouns

Answer 22

Do not refer to any specific person of thing e.g.
‘someone’
‘anything’
‘everything

Question 23

Demonstrative Pronouns

Answer 23

They tend to point to something e.g. ‘that’, this’ (but if it comes before a
noun it isn’t the
pronoun)

Question 24

Possessive pronouns

Answer 24

Show possession
(hers, ours, mine)
only when not
placed before the noun.

Question 25

Interrogative pronoun

Answer 25

Show possession (hers, ours, mine) only when not placed before the noun.

Question 26

Relative Pronouns

Answer 26

Act as linking words in a sentence always placed immediately AFTER the noun they refer to e.g. whom, who, whose, which, that. (The man, whohad decided to go home, was walking very quickly)

Question 27

Person

Answer 27

First person involves you personally (I, we, me, us, our, my) Second person is you, your, yours only Third person involves other people e.g. he, she, they, them, their

Question 28

Articles

Answer 28

There are only three articles and they are either definite (the) or indefinite (a or an)

Question 29

Determiners

Answer 29

Often confused with pronouns, they are always before the noun, not after it e.g. this car is new. They tell us which ‘thing’ is being referred to.

Question 30

Quantifiers

Answer 30

Are a type of determiner that show quantity e.g. he had ‘a few cows’, he ‘did not have enough milk’

Question 31

Prepositions

Answer 31

A word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else e.g. inside, outside, after, before

Question 32

Coordinating Conjunctions

Answer 32

join like with like (i.e., they join a noun with another noun, an adjective with another adjective etc.). The most common ones are and, but, and or.

Question 33

Subordinating Conjunctions

Answer 33

Subordinating conjunctions join subordinate clauses to main clauses. Common examples are although, because, if, since, unless, until, and while.