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:

  1. the
  2.  a
  3. an
  4. every
  5. several
  6. twenty
  7. 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?

  1. to start
  2. washed
  3. laughing
  4. 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.