Chapter 8 – The components of sentences
Consider the following statements and click to reveal the answer.
1. What are the eight main word classes or ‘parts of speech’ that are components of a sentence?
Answer:
The eight main word classes or ‘parts of speech’ that are components of a sentence are nouns, pronouns, determiners, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions.
2. Name the four types of common noun.
Answer:
The four types of common noun are concrete, abstract, countable and uncountable.
3. Which type of noun should be indicated by the use of initial capital letters?
Answer:
Proper nouns should be indicated by the use of initial capital letters.
4. Which kind of determiner are the following words:
- the
- a
- an
- every
- several
- twenty
- third
Answer:
a. the – definite article
b. a – indefinite article
c. an – indefinite article
d. every – determiner expressing quantity
e. several – determiner expressing quantity
f. twenty – cardinal numeral expressing quantity
g. third – ordinal numeral expressing quantity
5. Which form of regular verbs are the following?
- to start
- washed
- laughing
- wink(s)
Answer:
a. to start infinitive (to + verb stem)
b. washed simple past or past participle
c. laughing present participle
d. wink(s) simple present
6. What are the three types of conjunction?
Answer:
The three types of conjunction are co-ordinating, correlative and subordinating.
