Parts of Speech Review

Parts of Speech Review

The coding units of language.

The Noun Family

• Nouns: words that represent people, places, things and ideas! (sister, dog, home, sadness)

• Pronouns: words that take the places of people, places, things, and ideas! (he/she/it/they/them/himself, etc.)

• Adjectives: words that describe, provide condition for, or modify people, places, things, or ideas! (The dog was small.)

Decide the Parts of Speech

A bright yellow banana fell of its bunch.

ASK: WHAT IS THE WORD REPRESENTING? AND/OR WHAT IS IT DOING?

• yellow

• banana

• its

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech is the bolded and underlined word in the following sentence:

The little boy wanted to visit the museum, but it was closed.

• noun

• pronoun

• adjective

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech is the bolded and underlined word in the following sentence:

The little boy wanted to visit the museum, but it was closed.

• noun

• pronoun

• adjective

Multiple Choice

How many nouns are in the following sentence? There has to be a minimum of one noun in each sentence.

The little boy wanted to visit the museum, but it was closed.

• one

• two

• three

The Verb Family

• Verbs: words that demonstrate action that nouns/pronouns do (to jump) or link nouns/pronouns with adjectives or other nouns (to be, to become, and so on).

  • The girl wore a dress that was blue.

• Adverbs: words that describe or modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (jumped high). They often end in -ly.

Multiple Choice

Identify the VERB in this sentence:
"Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems and stories." 

• wrote 
• Edgar Allan Poe 
• stories
• poems and stories 

Multiple Choice

Identify the ADVERB in this sentence:
"Edgar Allan Poe wrote prolifically for many years." 

• wrote 
• Edgar Allan Poe 
• poems and stories

• prolifically

• ​Verbs have different jobs:

  • expressing action

  • helping others express action

  • linking together a noun with an adjective.

Tricky Verbs

Multiple Choice

Identify the VERB in this sentence:
"The new author is writing poems and stories." 

• new

• author

• is writing

• poems and stories 

Multiple Choice

Identify the VERB in this sentence:
"The new author is a young woman."

• new

• young

• is

• woman

• Adverbs modify verbs

• Negations: not (does not), never (never quits)

• Conjunctive Adverbs: therefore (He will, therefore, need help.), however, moreover, also

Tricky Adverbs

The "Shuns" or -tions, rather...

• Preposition: words that show the position of one object or action in relation to another object. (on the floor)

• Conjunction: words that create junctions, or connections between words, phrases, and clauses. (see "or" and "and" in the definition)

• Interjection: words that interject, or interrupt the flow of language to show emotion. (Huh, I guess.)

Multiple Choice

Identify the CONJUNCTION in this sentence:
"My friend has a cell phone, but I don't want one." 

• has 
• but 
• don't 
• want 

Multiple Choice

Identify the PREPOSITION in this sentence:
"The puppy was hiding under the blankets." 

• blankets 
• puppy 
• hiding 
• under 

Multiple Choice

Identify the INTERJECTION in this sentence: 
"Good grief! My favorite restaurant has closed." 

• good grief
• restaurant 
• favorite 
• closed 

Multiple Choice

Identify the NOUNS in this sentence: 
"When did Michael Jordan join the Chicago Bulls?"

• when, join 
• Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
• did, join
• Michael Jordan, when 

Multiple Choice

Identify the ADJECTIVES in this sentence:
"Three broken dishes lay on the dirty floor." 

• lay 
• broken, dirty 
• three, broken, dirty 
• floor 

Multiple Choice

Identify the ADVERB in this sentence:
"Susan B. Anthony fought tirelessly for women's voting rights."

• tirelessly 
• fought 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• voting 

Multiple Choice

Identify the PRONOUNS in this sentence:
"They awarded her the prize."

• prize 
• awarded 
• they 
• they, her 

Multiple Choice

What part of speech is the word "unlucky" in the sentence.
The rain drenched the unlucky lady.

• noun
• adjective
• adverb
• verb

Multiple Choice

3. Which part of speech expresses an action or a state of being?

• adverb
• interjection
• verb
• preposition

Multiple Choice

What is an adverb?

• A. a word that connects words, phrases and clauses 
•  a word that modifies verbs and some other parts of speech
• C. a word that modifies nouns and pronouns
• D. a word that is a person, place, thing or idea

Multiple Choice

A pronoun is a part of speech that can replace a ______.

• verb
• noun
• adjective
• adverb

Multiple Choice

Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.

• adjective
• adverb
• verb
• noun

Multiple Choice

1.  Yikes! I'm late for class.

• noun
• verb
• interjection
• infinitive

Multiple Choice

She thought that the twenty zucchini plants would not be enough so she planted another ten.

• noun
• verb
• article
• adverb

Multiple Choice

1.  On Saturdays I work  from nine to five.

• noun
• adverb
• verb
• conjunction

Multiple Choice

 I bought a beautiful  dress at the mall.

• adjective
• noun
• verb
• adverb

Multiple Choice

Find the interjection in the following sentence.

Hey, spellers! Watch out for me.

• Hey

• watch out

• for

• me

Fill in the Blank

A _________ can not only modify a verb, but it can also modify adjectives and themselves.

Fill in the Blank

Place the best conjunction in the sentence below:

I would really like to go to the movies _______ school gets out.