Lexical and Grammatical Words Quiz

Lexical words are the words with a ……….. meaning.

• dictionary

• functional

• grammatical

• noun

The underlined word in ‘he is sitting by the nearest window’ is a(n) :

• adjective

• adverb

• preposition

• conjunction

The underlined word in ‘after coming home, I went straight to bed’ is a(n) :

• conjunction

• pronoun

• adverb

• preposition

The underlined word in ‘he is eating the same food as he offered me yesterday’ is a(n) :

• pronoun

• adverb

• preposition

• adjective

By form the underlined word in ‘the detective looked hard’ is a(n) …… verb :

• action

• linking /action

• auxiliary

• non-finite

By form the underlined word in ‘the detective worked hard’ is a(n) …… verb :

• linking

• action

• auxiliary

• non-finite

The underlined word in ‘there is no one here but wants to be in your position’ is a(n) :

• preposition

• adverb

• pronoun

• noun

By form the underlined word in ‘the tent flap blew open during the night’ is a:

• adjective

• noun

• adverb

• verb

By form the underlined word in ‘in the late morning’ is a:

• adjective

• noun

• adverb

• verb

Lexical words belong to:

• closed class

• open class

• functional class

• positional class