Parts of speech

Parts of speech

This lesson will cover: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions

Noun - person, place, thing, idea

Here are some examples:

• Cerberus, Clemens, Quintus, Metella, dog, cook

• Pompeii, house, street, Italy, dining room, kitchen, office

• book, ring, discus, picture, lion, money

• fortitude, justice, wisdom, temperance, prudence

Multiple Select

Check all the nouns:

• hears

• dinner

• is

• on

• Grumio

Verb - an action or being word

• If you are doing an action, that action word is a verb

• If you are just being something, that word of being is a verb

• If you know the subject noun (or pronoun), ask yourself, what is the subject doing? Maybe it's an action, maybe it's being, but that's the verb

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence: Grumio is a cook. What is the verb?

• Grumio

• is

• a

• cook

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence: Grumio cooks dinner. Which word is the verb?

• Grumio

• cooks

• dinner

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence: Grumio is is cooking dinner. What is the verb? (a helping verb would be part of the verb phrase)

• Grumio

• is cooking

• dinner

Adjective - a word that modifies a noun (a describing word)

• What kind of? It's a green shirt, a large shirt

• How many? There are three trees, many trees

• Which one? It's that tree

Multiple Select

Check all the adjectives. (Think of words that could be used to describe the noun friend.)

• plays

• nice

• friendly

• with

• tall

Adverb - modifies a verb by answering

• How does the verb happen? quickly, softly, gently, suddenly

• When does the verb happen? often, always, now

• Where does the verb happen? there, everywhere

Multiple Choice

Which is the one adverb in this list? Try to use it to modify the verb in this sentence: I study Latin vocabulary.

• tall

• happy

• daily

• dog

Preposition - a position word, (or a word that tells you something about a noun relative to another noun.) You could think of "anywhere a mouse can go" relative to a wall.

• on the wall

• near the wall

• around the wall

• under the wall

• in the wall

Multiple Select

Try to check all prepositions. A trick to use to find a prepositions would be to try to put it with a noun like wall, (from the previous "anywhere a mouse can go" example) or a room like the kitchen.

Keep in mind those specific examples might not work with EVERY preposition, like "with," or "for," for example.

• into

• toward

• from

• out of

• through