Nouns
Verbs
Adj./adv.
Other Word classes
Guess the Word class
100
Words like: Information, news, furniture, money
What are "uncountable nouns"?
100
These vebs take an -ed morphological inflection in the past and past participle form
What are "regular verbs"?
100
This word class has a positive, a comparative, and a superlative form
What are "Adjectives"? (could also be adverbs :-))
100
This Word class can "coordinate" or "subordinate"
What are conjunctions?
100
The word class that places objects in Space: The car is in the garage, the hat is on your head
What are "prepositions"?
200
Words like "Mary, Birmingham, London, Peter Lewis"
What are "Proper Nouns"?
200
These verbs conjugate differently
What are "irregular verbs"?
200
This Word class often functions as premodifier to the head of a noun phrase
What are "Adjectives"?
200
Examples are: 1, 2, 3 ... 4th, 21st,
What are "Numerals (and ordinals)"?
200
The three articles
What are "a/an/the"?
300
Examples of this phenomenon are: The boys' bikes The boy's gym-shoes James' mum Eliza's best friend
What is "the genitive"?
300
These are all the auxiliary verbs
What are "to be, to have, to do and the modal verbs"?
300
This word class describes nouns
What are "Adjectives"?
300
Lexical words
What are "Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs"?
400
Examples are: Tooth, deer, man, ox, phenomenon, crisis...
What are "Irregular Nouns"?
400
You use this aspect to indicate an action is on-going
What is "the progressive aspect"? (aka continuous aspect)
400
This word class describes all Word classes, except nouns
What are "Adverbs"?
400
Examples of this Word class: Oh! Yikes! You never! What?
What are "Interjections"?
400
Nouns verbs adjectives adverbs articles pronouns prepositions numerals conjunctions interjections
What are the names of the 10 word classes?
500
examples are: Beef, veal, champagne, rouge, chariot ...
What are "French loanwords"?
500
These are the two tenses
What is "Present tense and Past tense"?
500
This word class MOST OFTEN ends in -ly
What are "Adverbs"?
500
This word class usually stands in stead of another word class, and can also be used as determiners. There are special "stand-alone" forms
What are "pronouns"? They replace nouns (boy = he); they can be used as determiners: my cousin; and they have separate "stand-alone" forms: my house = this house is mine; that book is yours; these shoes are hers.
500
THis Word class can be found functioning as a subject complement
What are "Adjectives"? Examples: Lucy is smart; the frog is green
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