There are various schools of thought on this. Some contend that articles are adjectives. They do modify nouns after all. Others say that articles are separate, a ninth part of speech. Still others claim that there is a ninth part of speech called determiners, which includes articles and words like "one," "two", "many," "any," "this," "those," "my," and "their."
Great quiz! I have one minor issue - on every other quiz on this site, "England" was never a permitted answer... I get is, since Scotland fields a team, but I kept typing in "United Kingdom" and "Great Britain" until time ran out! Still 82/88 ain't bad.
I had no idea what 'parts of speech' meant, I was trying things like tone, pitch etc. Had I known it was in regards to syntax I would have probably got most if not all of them! I think that category could be worded better.
Not everyone on jetpunk comes from a country where English is the main language. An extra hint in the question (like many other quizzes on jetpunk provide extra info, examples, ...) would help out the "foreigners" :)
But that's just making the question easier. If english is your second language then you probably know less about english parts of speech meaning you will probably get the question wrong as you should, because you don't have this knowledge. it's a question about the english language.
Ah yes "that's on you" because all the other languages in the world use a completely different word that even if you translate it litteraly to English, it's still completely different. And not even all English speakers use this apparently. But English, of course, has to be the weird guy again. Fun fact: there are non-English native speakers too!
Yay for Australia! NSW should be accepted for New South Wales if ACT is accepted for Australian Capital Territory. That parts of speech thing threw me too, I randomly put in 'verb' cos I was running out of ideas and then i figured that that's what it was on about...
Well in that case QLD, VIC, TAS, SA, WA, NT should also be accepted....Although an argument could be made for not accepting SA and WA as they could very easily be the start of other words...
Yeah, there's some disagreement on the number of parts of speech, with determiners (including articles) often being broken out of adjectives, and other nitpicky issues that only grammarians really get (my wife is one of them). This group of 8 is the most commonly used grouping, though.
You can omit an adjective from a sentence and it will remain grammatical; the same is not true of articles. They aren't the same thing, and old grammar textbooks are just wrong.
From a syntax perspective, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, tense, determiners, degree words, conjunctions, pronouns (behaves as a noun but is somewhat distinct) and complementizers (whether, if, that) should be the parts of speech.
They always participate, though! Nigeria have made it to quarter finals, Ghana as well (although they really should have gone on to semis, if not for some really crass unsportsmanship by a horrible person), and South Korea made it to semis (but really shouldn't have, with faire refereeing). Anyway, clearly, two continent dominate the sport, but that doesn't mean that it isn't played worldwide!
I wish people would stop saying guinea pigs when they're not pigs and they're not from Guinea... but sadly the names have stuck and they're accepted despite being misleading.
I know. I can't remember the last time I actually spelt them out - it's always just WA, SA or NT, even when speaking. But, we're too used to abbreviating everything down here, I guess.
Wasted half my time on Parts of Speech. My strategy was to think of a couple of sentences and see what sorts of words were in them. Unfortunately, this didn't produce "Interjection". Also, the words "an" and "the" were in my sentences and didn't seem covered by any of the seven Parts of Speech I'd gotten. (They're definitely not adjectives. You can't say "I saw red car yesterday" nor "I saw seven the cars yesterday", but "I saw a car yesterday" and "I saw seven red cars yesterday" are fine.) So, there I was: "'Article'! Uh, I mean, 'Determiner'. No? Hmm ... golly, I thought for sure they were called Determiners ... um, 'Number'? 'Numerator'? This isn't working. Hmm ... 'Particle'? No? Coulda sworn there was a part of speech called a Particle.... Bah!"
They are most decidedly not adjectives. "An" and "the" are determiners that appear in the specifier position of noun phrase (NP). Adjectives are words that modify nouns and are placed in the specifier position of N'.
They are adjectives. Article adjectives, to be precise. And the reason you can't say 'I saw seven red the cars yesterday' is because there is a natural order as to how adjectives go in a sentence. 'Red seven cars' also sounds wrong, but 'red' and 'seven' are both adjectives; they're just in the wrong order. 'A', 'an', and 'the' always go first among adjectives (for example, 'I saw the seven red cars yesterday').
I spent a decade teaching English. Trust me, it really depends on which text book you're looking at. There's no agreement on how many parts of speech there are or which things count or not, or how to label those things that do count. Honestly I think this category should be taken off the quiz but if it remains then it's no better or worse than any other list you find online.
Kodiak bears are a unique subspecies of the brown or grizzly bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi). They live exclusively on the islands in the Kodiak Archipelago and have been isolated from other bears for about 12,000 years.
Wow. I tried "Canberra" and "Capital" for "Australian Capital Territory." I feel like those should work. Well, maybe not "Capital" but definitely "Canberra."
Canberra is the captal of the ACT, not a state or territory, and the question was asking australian states or territories. But i made the same mistake if it makes you feel better! :)
What about just "capital territory" I thought I saw that as an accepted answer on another quiz, and it seems redundant to require "Australian" when naming the states and territories of australia
I tried Capital Territory, Capital Territories, Canberra Territory, Capitol Territory, Capitol Territories, and I even tried Capitola Territory before I finally gave up out of frustration. Sigh.
That was last week. They're back in the bear family this week. (Giant pandas, only. Not red pandas.) Some doctoral candidate will challenge the latest decision and they will be back with the raccoons at some point. But apparently at present they are bears again.
Pandas are not planets, but they are part of Asia and generally classified as vegetables, not fruit. Opinion is divided on whether or not they are autonomous countries, though.
"FOOD: any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth."........ A cup of tea with sugar and milk qualify I think.
If you go to 39°40'43.5"N latitude/44°46'37.1"E longitude you'll be in Turkey. About a 10 minute walk to the east will present you with the opportunity to swim across the Aras River into Azerbaijan.
I must say, I've lived in London for close to two years, and I've never had a full English without one or two hash browns. Genuine question: is there some sort of official council with a royal warrant, or an obscure Act of Parliament that defines the full English breakfast?
There's no definitive list of course. I think hash browns are left off only because that would make 9 and they did come from the USA originally, even though they are pretty ubiquitous in a full English these days.
What are you talking about? Cyprus is an island. The Northern part is a de facto state populated by people of Turkish origin, but that doesn't mean it's magically developed a land connection to Turkey itself.
I do appreciate that Australia decided to give its three directionally-named divisions three different naming patterns: South Australia, Western Australia, and Northern Territory.
Instead of complaining that you didn't know it before, give thanks to the QM for leading you to some new knowledge :)
otherwise, very enjoyable!
Add me to those that have never heard of parts of speech. In NZ it was types of word. Speech suggest oral.
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I feel like you see hash browns more often than black pudding south of the border.