Word Classes

Question 1

Preposition

Answer 1

Prepositions are single-word prepositions that express relationships of time, place, direction, manner, or other relationships.

Question 2

Adjective

Answer 2

a word naming an attribute of a noun

Question 3

Adverb

Answer 3

An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb

Question 4

Verb

Answer 4

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Question 5

Noun

Answer 5

A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Noah Webster), an animal (cat) and a place (Omaha). The four most common types of nouns are: common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns.

Question 6

Pronoun

Answer 6

Pronouns are words like ‘I’, ‘she’, and ‘they’ that are used in a similar way to nouns. They stand in for a noun that has already been mentioned or refer to yourself and other people. Pronouns can function just like nouns as the head of a noun phrase and as the subject or object of a verb.

Question 7

Articles (determiners)

Answer 7

In English there are three articles: a, an, and the. Articles are used before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective.

Question 8

Conjunction

Answer 8

a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

Question 9

Proper Nouns

Answer 9

A proper noun is a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing. To distinguish them from common nouns, proper nouns are always capitalised in English.

Question 10

Abstract Nouns

Answer 10

a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object, e.g. truth, danger, happiness.