TEFL CERTIFICATION : UNIT 5 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS ALL VERIFIED BY AN EXPERT A+ GRADED (LATEST UPDATE)

8 parts of speech - ANS verbs nouns adj adv conjunctions determiners prepositions pronouns Word classes have two groups: - ANS major lexical (or open) minor or grammatical (closed) 4 word classes for major/lexical word class: - ANS verb noun adj adv Why are major lexical groups considered open? - ANS new words can be added to the group. 4 minor word classes - ANS conjunctions determiner preposition pronoun Why are minor/grammatical called such? - ANS they perform grammatical functions such as relating expressions to each other. Why are minor/grammatical considered closed? - ANS because no new words can be added Verb - ANS word or phrase that describes an action, condition, or experience. Noun - ANS that refers to a person, place, thing, occurrence, quality or substance Adjective - ANS a word that describes a noun or pronoun Adverb - ANS word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adj, or phrase Conjunction - ANS word such as and but while or although that connects words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence. Determiner - ANS In grammer, this is a word that is used before a noun to show which particular example of the noun we are referring to. Preposition - ANS used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word. Pronoun - ANS used instead of a noun or noun phrase (a group of words built upon a single noun.) Tense - ANS the absolute location of an event or action in time, either the present or the past. Inflection - ANS the name for the extra letter or letters added to nouns, verbs, and adj in their different grammatical forms