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title: Word classes: the jobs words do — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Word classes: the jobs words do

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The 15 questions of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 84 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t1/) — «quickly's an adjective, it describes stuff, innit». What's the best reply? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t2/) — ★★ «The early bird got there early.» What word class is each «early»? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t3/) — ★★ «friendly ends in -ly so it's an adverb, easy». Is it? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t4/) — ★★★ In «Mine is the red one, but hers is blue», which words are pronouns? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t5/) — ★★★ «Before lunch, I tidied up. I'd never seen it before.» What word class is each «before»? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t6/) — ★★★ How many nouns are in «Gran gave Tom a cake and a card on Friday»? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t7/) — In a cartoon, Captain Grammar says «every word is born a noun or a verb and stays that way for ever». What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t8/) — «yeah nah, arvo isn't a real word». What's true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t9/) — What would happen if a sentence had no verb at all, like «The big red bus»? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t10/) — Mum shouts, «Proper noun, love, capital letter!» Which words need capitals in «tom went to paris on tuesday»? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/t11/) — «that film was well good». Which word is working like «very» here? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/e1/) — Identify the word class of «run» in the sentence «I went for a run». — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an adverb? — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the word «my» in «my dog». — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/e4/) — Ascertain which of the following words is an adjective notwithstanding its terminal «-ly». — right ✓ · exam

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