Word classes

Question 1

Nouns

What is a proper noun?

Answer 1

Refers to names of people and places

always has a capital letter

e.g. James, London

Question 2

Nouns

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 2

Refers to states, feelings and concepts that do not have a physical existence

e.g. love, anger

Question 3

Nouns

What is a concrete noun?

can be countable or non-countable

Answer 3

Refers to objects that have physical existence

Question 4

Nouns: Concrete noun

What is a countable concrete noun?

Answer 4

It can be pluralised

e.g. cup(s)

Question 5

Nouns: Concrete noun

What is a non-countable concrete noun?

Answer 5

Do not take the pluralised form

e.g. sheep, furniture

Question 6

Verbs

What is a material verb?

Answer 6

Shows actions or events

e.g. hit, jump, wash, build

Question 7

Verbs

What is a relational verb?

Answer 7

Identify properties/ show states of being

e.g. be, appear, seem, become

Question 8

Verbs

What is a mental verb?

mental= mind

Answer 8

Show internal processes

e.g. think, believe, wish

Question 9

Verbs

What is a verbal verb?

verbal= speech

Answer 9

Show external processes of communicating through speech

e.g. say, shout, scream, whisper

Question 10

Verbs

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 10

Verb that requires a direct object, which is a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase that follows the verb and completes sentence meaning

has an object to recieve the action

e.g. ‘I bake some cookies.’- ‘bake’ is the trandsitive verb- it shows what is being done with the cookies (noun)

Question 11

Verbs

What is an intransitive verb?

opposite of a transitive verb

Answer 11

Does not require direct object (noun, pronoun, noun phrase) to indicate the person or thing acted upon

does not have an object receiving the action

e.g. ‘I laugh’- ‘laugh’ does not need an object in order to complete

Question 12

Verbs

What is an auxiliary verb?

Answer 12

Helping verbs- shows time, tense and possibility

They do not work as main verbs, hence why they’re ‘helping’ verbs

e.g. ‘be’ verbs, have and do
“I have seen a movie.” / “Alex is going to school.”

Question 13

Adjectives and adverbs

What is a base adjective/ adverb?

Answer 13

The basic form of an adjective or adverb, modifying another word.

e.g. bid, interesting, carefully

Question 14

Adjectives and adverbs

What is a comparitive adjective/ adverb?

Answer 14

A form used to compare two instances either adding ‘er’ or using ‘more’

e.g. The parcel was bigger/ He read more carefully

Question 15

Adjectives and adverbs

What is a superlative adjective/ adverb?

Answer 15

A form used to compare two instances identifying a best example

adding ‘est’ (biggest)

e.g. That was the biggest parcel./ That was the most interesting game.

Question 16

Adjectives and adverbs

What is an attributive adjective/ adverb?

Answer 16

Adjectives that come before the noun

e.g. Dark evening, mysterious event

Question 17

Adjectives and adverbs

What is a predicstive adjective adverb?

Answer 17

Adjective that comes after the noun

e.g. The evening was dark./ The event qas mysterious

Question 18

Adjectives and adverbs

What is an evaluative adjective/ adverb?

evaluate= opinionated

Answer 18

Tell us about something that can be measured and compared

e.g nice, boring

Question 19

Pronouns

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 19

Refers to people, are differentiated in terms of person, number and gender

e.g. I- first person singular, You- second person singular, She- third person singular feminine, They- third person plural

Question 20

Pronouns

What is a demonstrative pronoun?

Answer 20

Orientate the reader/ listener towards a person, object or idea either nearby or further away

e.g. this, that, these, those

Question 21

Pronouns

What is an in-definite pronoun?

Answer 21

Refers to a person object or idea that is non-specific

e.g. somebody, anybody, everything

Question 22

Determiners

What is an article determiner?

Answer 22

Show that something is definite or in-definite

Specific or not specific

e.g. The (definite), A/an (Indefinite)

Question 23

Determiners

What is a possessive determiner?

Answer 23

Show ownership

e.g. my, her, your, our

Question 24

Determiners

What is a quanitifier determiner?

Answer 24

Show either specific or non-specific quantities of a noun

e.g. one, two (specific)
some, any, few (non-specific)

Question 25

Conjunctions

What is a co-ordinating conjunction?

Answer 25

Link words or larger structures such as phrases and clauses together where they are equal

e.g. and, but, yet

Question 26

Conjunctions

What are subordinating conjunctions?

Answer 26

Link clauses together to show that one is dependent on the other

e.g. because, although, while, therefore

Question 27

Repetition

What is anaphora?

Answer 27

Repeated word pr phrase used at the beginning of successive clauses

repetitoon of start of sentence

e.g. Inspector’s Goole’s speech- ‘we are’, ‘we are’, ‘we are’

Question 28

Repetition

What is an epiphora?

opposite to anaphora

Answer 28

Repeated word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

e.g. ‘I want the best, we want the best, we deserve the best’

Question 29

Repetition

What is an epizeuxis?

Answer 29

Repetition of words/ phrases in immediate succession for vehemance or emphasis

Consistent repetition of the same word

e.g. ‘Oh horror, horror, horror!’

Question 30

Repetition

What is a parallelism?

grammatical

Answer 30

Repeating the same grammatical structure within a sentence or series of sentences

e.g. ‘humbled by the task, grateful for the trust, mindful of the sacrifices’

Question 31

Question

What is erotesis?

Answer 31

A question which has an obvious answer

e.g. Are you listening to me? Teacher to student

Question 32

Question

What is epiplexis?

Answer 32

Questions which are used to show angry emotions- used to rebuke