The two main types of words in English are:
- function and content words
- grammar and structure words
- content and lexical words
In "I enjoyed the play enormously", the word 'enormously' is
- an adverb of degree
- a predicative adjective
- an adverb of manner
The -ed ending to show the past tense in English is a verbal
- inflexion
- derivation
- addition
The head of the prepositional phrase "opposite the car park" is
- park
- car
- opposite
In "He has reluctantly joined the army", the verb phrase (including adverbs) is
- has reluctantly joined
- joined
- reluctantly joined
In the expression "Two sugars, please", the noun 'sugar' is
- a count noun
- a mass noun
- a proper noun
In "He seems very unhappy today", the word 'seem' is
- a copular verb
- a modal auxiliary verb
- a lexical or main verb
In "Don't open that!", the word 'do' is
- a lexical or main verb
- a primary auxiliary verb
- a modal auxiliary verb of prohibition
In "That is a small house", the adjective is
- attributive
- predicative
- dynamic
In "That house is too small", the word 'that' is
- a demonstrative determiner
- a quantitative determiner
- a demonstrative pronoun
In "She became angry" we have
- a copular verb and a predicative adjective
- a copular verb and an attributive adjective
- a main verb and a predicative adjective
In "Please don't smoke inside" the word 'inside' is
- an adverb of place
- a preposition of place
- a determiner
In "I looked but couldn't find it" the word 'but' is
- a coordinating conjunction
- a subordinating conjunction
- a correlating conjunction
In "She came home late as she'd missed the bus" the word 'as' is
- a coordinating conjunction
- a subordinating conjunction
- a correlating conjunction
In "Nobody came to the party", the word 'Nobody' is
- a pronoun
- a determiner
- a demonstrative