Word class

Matching exercise

ELT Concourse home
Put the items on the right with the items on the left.
nouns
adjectives
adverbs
verbs
articles
demonstratives
pronouns
prepositions
conjunctions
interjections
represent events, feeling, thoughts and actions
a closed-class set of only three words in English
describe direction or position in place and time
are concerned with answering 'which'
modify verbs in some way
stand in for nouns
link ideas by adding, contrasting etc.
describe nouns
can be divided in proper, concrete and abstract
ouch!, wow!, aaargh!