Word Classes

Question 1

Proper noun

Answer 1

This is a noun used to name particular people and places: Jim, Betty, London– and some times: Monday, April, Easter. It always begins with a capital letter.

Question 2

Common noun

Answer 2

A common noun is a noun that is used to name everyday things: cars, toothbrushes, trees,… – and kinds of people: man, woman, child.

Question 3

Collective noun

Answer 3

This is a noun that describes a group or collection of people or things: army, bunch, team, swarm…

Question 4

Adjective

Answer 4

An adjective is a ‘describing’ word: it is a word used to describe (or tell you more about) a noun.
An adjective usually comes before a noun but sometimes it can be separated from its noun and come afterwards

Question 5

Verbs

Answer 5

A verb is a word, or a group of words, that tells you what a person or thing is being or doing. It is often called a ‘doing’ word: e.g. running, eating, sitting.
All sentences have a subject and a verb. The subject is the person or thing doing the action

Question 6

Imperative verb

Answer 6

Known as bossy verbs as they tell people what to do e.g close the door, empty the bin….

Question 7

Auxillary verb

Answer 7

A verb is often made up of more than one word. The actual verb-word is helped out by parts of the special verbs: the verb to be and the verb to have. These ‘helping’ verbs are called auxiliary verbs and can help us to form tenses.Auxiliary verbs for ‘to be’ include: am, are, is, was, were

Question 8

Adverbs

Answer 8

An adverb tells you more about the verb (it ‘adds’ to the verb). It nearly always answers the questions: How? When? Where? or Why?
Most adverbs in English end in –ly and come from adjectives:
E.g. soft – softly; slow – slowly.

Question 9

Singular pronouns

Answer 9

Singular pronouns are used to refer to one person or thing. E.g.: I, you, me, he, she, it, you, him, her, mine, yours, his, hers, its

Question 10

Plural pronouns

Answer 10

Plural pronouns are used to refer to more than one person or thing.
E.g.: we, they, us, them, ours, yours, theirs

Question 11

Peeposition

Answer 11

Prepositions are words which show the relationship of one thing to another.
Examples: Tom jumped over the cat. The monkey is in the tree.
These words tell you where one thing is in relation to something else.
Other examples of prepositions include: up, across, into, past, under, below, above

Question 12

Connective

Answer 12

Connectives (conjunctions) join together words, phrases, clauses and sentences. They help us to create compound sentences by joining two main clauses together.
Other connectives (conjunctions) include: but, as, so, or ...
 Subordinating connectives link a main (independent) clause with a subordinate (dependent) clause (a clause which does not make sense on its own).

Question 13

Articles

Answer 13

An article is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are three articles: a, an and the

Question 14

Subornating connectives

Answer 14

Subordinating connectives link a main (independent) clause with a subordinate (dependent) clause (a clause which does not make sense on its own).