Can you name the English grammatical terms from their definitions?

Definition	Term
Used to describe a noun or pronoun
A word used to mean the opposite of another word
A word used to connect two words, phrases, or clauses
An overstatement or exaggerated language that distorts facts
'A', 'An', and 'The' are these
A verb which acts as a noun
A word that is not clearly connected with the word it explains
A verb form used as an adjective
Used to describe a verb, adjective, or adverb
Used to connect a noun or pronoun with another part of a sentence
Words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings
Expresses the highest degree of quality for an adjective or adverb

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Grammatical Terms Quiz

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Created Jun 10, 2008 in Language
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	austin massachusetts:	Nov 8th, 2008 at 17:21 GMT	2 points
	Meh, 9/12. Only reason I got some of these is because of Latin parsing.

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	SillyStokey92:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 18:53 GMT	0 points
	I got 7. I don't remember these words.

	jkd:	Dec 8th, 2008 at 15:51 GMT	1 point
	A gerundive is another verb form that can be used as an adjective.

	sactoshc:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 02:58 GMT	1 point
	I was happy with 11/12 (smack to the forehead for preposition)...I think participle only came to me because my mother went to school with nuns and told me about it.

	lauraellen:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 13:34 GMT	5 points
	i would argue that a "noun formed from a verb" could also be called a "nominalization" or a "nominal." also, i think a "verb form not clearly connected with the word it explains" could also be a "misplaced modifier."

	scrivener:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 00:49 GMT	5 points
	@Bray: Yes, an adverb modifies an adjective, a verb, or another adverb. In _He went very quickly_, QUICKLY is an adverb modifying WENT and VERY is an adverb modifying QUICKLY. I would argue that HYPERBOLE, ANTONYM, and HOMONYM are not really grammar-related.

	David:	Dec 31st, 2008 at 22:18 GMT	-2 points
	9/12. I should've paid more attention in English.

	Daniel Holmes:	Jan 9th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT	1 point
	They don't teach any of this any more.

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	jessbowen:	Feb 22nd, 2009 at 06:51 GMT	8 points
	A homonym is different from a homophone. The bow of a ship and to take a bow are homonyms. Two, to and too are homophones - same sound, different spellings and meanings. misplaced modifier should work for dangling modifier.

	ohemcee:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 19:20 GMT	0 points
	Could "a word not clearly identified with the word it explains" also be a substantive adjective?

	Todd1952SF:	Mar 26th, 2009 at 07:47 GMT	0 points
	While adjectives can only be used to modify nouns, adverbs very definitely can be used to modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.

	Journey2688:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 01:39 GMT	-1 points
	9/12 and I am in eighth grade. I am proud of myself.

	DResq:	Apr 19th, 2009 at 01:26 GMT	0 points
	Gerund?

	Extramental:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 03:06 GMT	1 point
	All but 'dangling modifier'...still, 11/12 isn't bad

	anne:	May 11th, 2009 at 11:17 GMT	5 points
	I suppose I knew I should be wary of this one when I noticed pronoun was spelled incorrectly.

	zifyoip:	May 20th, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	6 points
	Should a conjunction be "A word used to connect TWO words, phrases, or clauses"? That would seem to make more sense than "connect TO words, phrases, or clauses." Also, for "Used to connect a noun or pronoun with another part of a sentence" I guessed "copula," "linking verb," and even "verb" before I guessed that maybe this was an attempt to describe a preposition.

	giftediq:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 21:10 GMT	1 point
	I agree about "misplaced modifier" working for "dangling modifier". I also agree with the misuse of "to". There is no such thing as a "gerundive". A "gerund" is a verb which acts as a noun (i.e. "running" in "Running is fun."), not really a noun formed from a verb (i.e. "enjoyment" from "enjoy").

	oshek13:	Jun 21st, 2009 at 19:34 GMT	-1 points
	'A', 'An', and 'The' are also known as 'determiners'

	giftediq:	Jun 22nd, 2009 at 07:00 GMT	3 points
	^^Articles (Indefinite and Definite) also^^

	erinmcm1:	Jun 23rd, 2009 at 15:49 GMT	-1 points
	Look it up, Gerundive IS a word, and it IS a verb that acts as an adjective.

	sisterbabs:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 02:37 GMT	3 points
	I think "misplaced modifier" should also be accepted for "dangling modifier" as it is widely used.

	ESK:	Sep 16th, 2009 at 17:02 GMT	2 points
	I'm perfectly fine with the ones I missed, since Schoolhouse Rock apparently nixed the lyrics "Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your dangling modifiers here!"

	tlchi:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 08:29 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz. An infinitive is also a noun formed from a verb, and verbal noun should be accepted as the generic term for this sort of construction.

	bringleton:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 15:47 GMT	2 points
	I definitely think that "dangling modifier" should be renamed as "misplaced modifier" in this quiz. "Dangling" implies that it comes at the end of a sentence, but that is not always the case.

	FroznMbryo:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 GMT	2 points
	Agree that misplaced modifier should be accepted. Would have had a perfect score but for that. Also, @erinmcm1: these are English grammatical terms, and gerundives occur in Latin but not in English. As per AHD-4: http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/gerundive

	rockon455:	Nov 8th, 2009 at 23:05 GMT	1 point
	I agree with oshek13. I'm a linguistics student, and I was taught to apply the term "determiner" to a/an & the.

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 24th, 2009 at 01:43 GMT	1 point
	That's taught me something, I'd never heard of a dangling modifier before.

	roonilwazlib:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 19:03 GMT	2 points
	I agree with bringleton. The proper term is "misplaced modifier."

	Edge578:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 03:16 GMT	0 points
	articles are types of adjectives..

	deusyali:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 04:21 GMT	3 points
	Oy, there are grammar errors IN this quiz. Also, the terms here are not used exactly -- couldn't this person have just consulted a dictionary. Yuck.

	Justdesserts:	Jan 3rd, 2010 at 01:01 GMT	-4 points
	I'm not quite sure how to rate this quiz. On one hand, exactly the type of quiz sporcle was made for. On the other hand, with this many possible mistakes, I am not going to trust the information in the quiz. Good effort, however. Oh, and @deusyali: Before you complain about grammar error, check your own post for one. As an example, Yuck is not a sentence.

	dazedposer:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 07:15 GMT	1 point
	Oy, of COURSE an adverb can modify an adverb Bray. Jeez. The problem with this is mostly the preposition question. The answer should reasonably be "coordinating conjunction," or maybe just "coordinator." Man oh man.

	kristifree:	Mar 10th, 2010 at 04:17 GMT	1 point
	@Justdesserts, "Yuck" can indeed be its own sentence, because it is an interjection, and an interjection can be used by itself as a standalone sentence. Don't be so hasty to criticize. Just sayin'.

	SporcleAdmin:	Apr 14th, 2010 at 23:45 GMT	2 points
	Yuck is right...this rather out of date (and very old) quiz got some love. We fixed many of the errors and made some alternate answers acceptable. Thanks for hanging in there with us.

	flyingdics:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 20:12 GMT	5 points
	Neat idea for a quiz, but the preposition clue is awful. This would be a better quiz if it didn't have any grammatical terms (noun, pronoun, adverb, etc.) as they're hard to satisfactorily define. A quiz of words like "antonym", "hyperbole", "metonymy" would be much better.

	Sjophiki:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 13:17 GMT	-1 points
	I suck at this. I only know the Dutch equivalents. 3/12

	PirateOnPtree:	Jan 4th, 2011 at 09:49 GMT	2 points
	The definition for Preposition is WAY off. A preposition shows the relation of the noun to an object. To talk about its relation to "another part of the sentence" is completely misleading.

	marsviking:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 15:38 GMT	1 point
	and adverb describes an adverb, verb or adjective?