NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH

Interjections, conjunctions and prepositions are______

• words that have meaning

• parts of speech that are not commonly used

• parts of speech that are used with nouns

• some of the parts of speech

Parts of speech are classified into______.

• content and function words

• nouns, verbs and adverbs

• adjectives, prepositions and conjunctios

• simple and compound words

The form of a word is _____

• the role it plays in a sentence

• the position in the sentence

• the category to which it is assigned, regarding its syntactic function

• the defi nition, denotation or connotation of a word

Function words are also called .......

• words that have meaning and are used as main words in a sentence.

• lexical words such as prepositions, auxiliaries or pronouns.

• words that are used to express the lexical meaning of a sentence.

• grammar words such as interjections, pronouns or articles.

In order to contrast languages we need to pay attention to_____ of words.

• definition and meaning

• definition, form and function

• function and lexical meaning

• form and function

A noun is ____.

• a word that names people

• a word that names things

• a word that names places

• a word that names events among others

What is true about nouns in English and in Spanish?

• Nouns in both languages have gender and case.

• Only Spanish has gender number and case.

• Nouns in both languages have gender, number and case.

• Only English has gender number and case.

In Spanish there are more words that have gender than in English

• TRUE

• FALSE

Gender is very important in both, English and Spanish

• TRUE

• FALSE

Gender in English and Spanish....

• is similar because both of them have neuter genders.

• is different, Spanish nouns use determiners / adjectives of the same gender

• is similar, nouns use determiners and adjectives of the same gender.

• is similar because both of them have masculine, feminine and neuter genders