Flashcards on Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech
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Parts of Speech
36 cards
Card 1
Question: What are the eight main parts of speech?
Answer: Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Card 2
Question: What is the function of pronouns?
Answer: Pronouns stand in for nouns so that they do not have to be repeated.
Card 3
Question: What do adjectives do?
Answer: Adjectives describe nouns, telling us what someone or something is like.
Card 4
Question: What questions do adjectives answer?
Answer: What kind? Which? Whose? How many?
Card 5
Question: Where do adjectives usually appear in a sentence?
Answer: They usually come before the noun.
Card 6
Question: What do verbs tell us?
Answer: Verbs tell us what people, animals, or things do, or what happens to them.
Card 7
Question: What questions do verbs answer?
Answer: What does it do? What happens?
Card 8
Question: Why is the verb the most important word in a sentence?
Answer: Without it, a sentence is not complete.
Card 9
Question: What does the infinitive form of a verb represent?
Answer: It is the basic form of the verb.
Card 10
Question: What do adverbs tell us?
Answer: Adverbs tell us how, where, when, or how often something happens.