Composition Parts of Speech Review

What is a noun?

• A describing word

• Name of a person, place or thing

• A doing word

• Name of a person, place, thing or idea that can take a determiner and can be singular or plural

Which words are used to link words to other words and often show the relationship between them?

• Prepositions

• Determiners

• Pronouns

• Parentheses

Which of these are personal pronouns

• We

• They

• This

• Which

Pencil, boat, raspberry, mug, teddy - these are all examples of

• Abstract nouns

• Proper nouns

• Concrete nouns

• Collective nouns

"We would work better without distractions." What are the verbs in this sentence?

• We

• Would

• Work

• Better

• Without

What can an adjective modify?

• A concrete noun

• An abstract noun

• Nouns

• Verbs

What can an adverb modify?

• Nouns

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Verbs

• Prepositions

What can replace a noun?

• Phoneme

• Produle

• Preposition

• Pronoun

What do we call words like: this, that, these, those

• Reflexive pronouns

• Demonic pronouns

• Possessive pronouns

• Demonstrative pronouns

"I love Linguistics but learning the terms is difficult." What type of word is 'but'?

• Contrasting conjunction

• Subordinating conjunction

• Connective

• Coordinating conjunction