English Parts of Speech (Very Hard)
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- What is the difference between a proper and a common noun?
- A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea. A common noun is the general name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
- What is the difference between a singular and a plural noun?
- A singluar noun names one person, place, thing, or idea and a plural noun names more than one.
- What is the difference between a personal pronoun and a possessive pronoun?
- A personal pronoun refers to a specific place or thing and a possessive pronoun indicates possession or ownership.
- What is the difference between a reflexive pronoun and a intensive pronoun?
- A reflexive pronoun goes with a verb you do to yourself. An intensive pronoun is the same as a reflexive pronoun except it follows a personal pronoun.
- What is the difference between an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun?
- An interrogative pronoun is used to form a question and a relative pronoun is used to begin certain subject-verb word groups.
- What is the difference between a demonstrative pronoun and an indefinite pronoun?
- A demonstrative pronoun points out specific nouns. An indefinite pronoun refers to nouns in a more general way.
- What is the difference between a transitive verb and an intransitive verb?
- A transitive verb is an action verb that is followed by a word or words that answer the question whom or what. An intransitive verb is an action verb that is not followed by a word or words that answer the question whom or what.
- What is a linking verb?
- A linking verb links/joins the subject of a sentence with a word/expression that identifies/describes the subject.
- What is a verb phrase?
- A verb phrase consists of a main verb and all its auxilliary, or helping, verbs.
- What is the difference between an adjective and a proper adjective?
- An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. A proper adjective comes from a proper noun and is capitalized.
- What is an adverb?
- An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
- What are positive, comparitive, and superlative adverbs?
- These adverbs indicate degrees of comparison.
- What is the difference between a preposition and a compound preposition?
- A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a (pro)noun to a differnt word in the sentence. A compound preposition is a preposition made up of more than one word.
- What is the difference between a coordinating conjunction and a correlative conjunction?
- A coordinating conjunction joins words or groups of words that have equal grammatical weight in a sentence. Correlative conjunctions work in pairs to join words or groups of words that have equal grammatical weight in a sentence.
- What is the difference between a subordinating conjunction and an interjection?
- A subordinating conjunction joins 2 ideas so that one is grammatically dependent on the other. An interjection is a word that expresses emotion or exclamation.