word classifications

Question 1

common noun

Answer 1

something you can touch

Question 2

proper noun

Answer 2

particular person, place or thing; it always begins with a capital letter to distinguish it

Question 3

abstract noun

Answer 3

quality, state of mind, physical condition or idea

Question 4

collective noun

Answer 4

a collection or group of people, animals or things that are regarded as a whole

Question 5

active verb

Answer 5

physical processes

Question 6

stative verb

Answer 6

emotional processes

Question 7

determiner adjective

Answer 7

this, that, those, these, my, your, his, her

Question 8

distributive adjective

Answer 8

each, every, either, neither

Question 9

interrogative adjective

Answer 9

which, what. as in “which book do you prefer?”

Question 10

numerical adjective

Answer 10

one, two, three

Question 11

indefinite adjective

Answer 11

all, many, several

Question 12

qualitative adjective

Answer 12

male, English, large, fat, tiny, amazing

Question 13

adjective

Answer 13

to modify nouns and pronouns

Question 14

adverb

Answer 14

to modify any word class apart from noun and pronoun

Question 15

adverb of time

Answer 15

now, then, soon, recently

Question 16

adverbs of place

Answer 16

here, inside, outside, below, above

Question 17

adverbs of manner

Answer 17

slowly, quickly, calmly, badly, well

Question 18

adverbs of degree

Answer 18

very, fairly, almost, quite, too

Question 19

adverbs of number

Answer 19

once, twice, firstly, secondly,

Question 20

adverbs of un/certainty

Answer 20

perhaps, certainly, surely

Question 21

interrogative adverbs

Answer 21

how? where? when? why?

Question 22

coordinating conjunction

Answer 22

and or but

Question 23

subordinating conjunction

Answer 23

because, although, therefore, so, due to

Question 24

prepositions

Answer 24

convey a spatial relationship between objects