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1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar by Benjamin Hathaway
Etymology
Question 1
Of what does etymology treat?
The classification, properties, and derivation of words.
2. How are words classified with reference to use?
Into ten parts of speech.
3. Name the parts of speech.
Article, noun, pronoun, adjective,
verb, participle, adverb, conjunction,
preposition, and interjection.
4. Why are they called parts of speech?
The name parts of speech implies an incompleteness.
Each must be joined to others in order to make a whole,
or to be speech.
5. What is inflection?
It is the changes in form which words undergo
to denote differences in meaning
or differences in the connection in which they are used.
As the man goes.
Meaning, change slightly, the men go.
I am becomes inflection.
we are. Six. What is a noun? It is the name of anything.
Seven. What is a pronoun? It is a word
used instead of a noun, as James, who was kind to us,
has lost his fortune, and must now depend upon
himself. Eight. What is an adjective?
A word that modifies, changes the value of a noun or pronoun,
as the beautiful day she is happy note sometimes
the words a or an and the are
reckoned as a separate part of speech
and are called articles but as they
really modify the meaning of nouns they
are only a kind of adjective 9 what is a
verb a word that asserts
or declares 10 what is a participle a word partaking
of the properties of verbs and nouns,
or verbs and adjectives, as she likes giving. The growing
child. 11. What is an adverb?
A word that modifies, changes the meaning of a verb,
adjective, or another adverb, as he acts honestly.
He is a truly upright boy. She sees him very often.
12. What is a preposition?
It is a word that connects other words, showing the relationship
between them, as he went with us. 13.
What is a conjunction? A word used to connect sentences or
to connect words used in the same way in a sentence,
as Mary is very sad, but she is very
brave. He and I are good friends. 14.
What is an interjection? As the name signifies, it is a word
thrown into the sentence and is of no sense a part of it,
but is an exclamation expressive of
feeling. It is not, therefore,
in the same sense with other words a part of speech, as, alas, the
day. Oh, for a calm and thankful heart!
Oh, horror! Hurrah! End of section 3.
