8 Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Review

by Mrs. Hartin

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech is the most important part because she starts the baseball game with her pitch?

• Nancy the Noun

• Penny the Pronoun

• Betty the Verb

• Pandora the Preposition

• Addie the Adjective

Betty the Verb

• She's the pitcher and her favorite color is green!

• Verbs show action and tell what the subject is doing in a sentence. Examples of verbs: run, jump, slide, stop, talk, think, believe, consider, yell, decide, constrain, besiege, beg, infuriate, irk, borrow.

Betty the Verb

• Some verbs do not show action. Instead they link or help.

• There are 23 helping verbs: am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, can, could

Multiple Select

Check all the verbs in this sentence.

• Betty

• will

• start

• the

• game.

Multiple Select

Check all the verbs in this sentence.

• The

• coach

• pulled

• Penny

• out.

Multiple Select

Check all the verbs in this sentence.

• Penny

• is

• jealous

• of

• Nancy.

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech is up to bat at home plate? This part of speech is any word that is a Person, Place, Thing, or Idea.

• Nancy the Noun

• Penny the Pronoun

• Betty the Verb

• Pandora the Preposition

• Addie the Adjective

Nancy the Noun

• Nancy is at home plate. Her favorite color is BLUE!

• Some nouns are common nouns. For example: bat, ball, player, girl, boy, coach

• Some nouns are proper nouns. For example: White Sox, Aqsa, Nancy, Mrs. Hartin, Ohio, Chicago Cubs

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are nouns in this sentence.

• Nancy

• hit

• the

• ball

• hard.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are nouns in this sentence.

• Fans

• know

• it

• takes

• strength.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are nouns in this sentence.

• Players

• need

• an

• education

• too.

Penny the Pronoun

• Penny is on first base and her favorite color is purple.

• She is a substitute for a noun because she is faster to say than a noun.

• She likes pockets. There are six different pronoun pockets

Pronoun Pockets!

• _{Personal - I, me, you, she, he, they, us, we}

• _{Possessive- your, mine, theirs, ours}

• _{Demonstrative - that, those, this}

• _{Infinitive - everyone, anyone, each other}

• _{Reflexive - myself, yourself, ourselves}

• _{Interrogative - Who? What?}

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are pronouns in this sentence.

• Penny

• is

• faster

• than

• everyone.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are pronouns in this sentence.

• She

• gives

• herself

• a

• pep talk.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are pronouns in this sentence.

• Hey,

• what

• is

• in

• there?

Addie the Adjective

• She stands on 2nd base & loves the color RED!

• She describes a noun or pronoun.

• She tells age, number, emotion, size, or color

• Examples: red, eight, angry, tall, hairy, sad, black, and giant.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are an adjective in this sentence.

• My

• red

• sneakers

• are

• dirty.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are an adjective in this sentence.

• Huge

• elephants

• drink

• two

• gallons

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are an adjective in this sentence.

• Green

• frogs

• eat

• tiny

• flies.

Ava the Adverb

• She plays 3rd base because she can describe three things (verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs)

• She describes...

• _{when a verb happens (today, yesterday)}

• _{where it happens (outside, inside)}

• _{how it happens (quickly, slowly, quietly, -LY)}

• _{to what extent (very, really, so, extremely)}

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are an adverb in this sentence.

• Alice

• was

• extremely

• angry

• yesterday.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are an adverb in this sentence.

• Run

• quickly

• to

• see

• clearly.

Multiple Select

Check all the words that are an adverb in this sentence.

• Penny

• completely

• filled

• her

• pockets.

Alice the Article

• _{She plays short stop because she's so short.}

• _{She technically is just another adjective, but don't tell her that. It hurts her feelings.}

• _{Examples: a, an, the}

• _{Use "a" when a word following it starts with a consonant.}

• _{Use "an" when a word following it starts with a vowel.}

Multiple Select

Check the articles in the following sentence:

• A

• giant

• ate

• the

• hotdog.

Multiple Select

Check the articles in the following sentence:

• A

• giant

• ate

• the

• hotdog.

Pandora the Preposition

• _{She plays in the right outfield.}

• _{She arrived in a box because whatever you can do to a box is probably a preposition.}

• Her job is to show a relationship or direction between two nouns.

  _{Examples: in, on, beside, of, by, over, under, with, to, for, on top of, around}

Multiple Select

Check the words that are prepositions for the following sentence: Inside they yelled loudly.

• Inside

• they

• yelled

• loudly

Multiple Select

Check the words that are prepositions.

• The

• box

• said,

• "from

• Greece".

Connie the Conjunction

• _{She plays in the outfield in the center, and YELLOW is her favorite color.}

• Coordinating (For, And, Nor, But, or, yet, so)

• Subordinating WISHBONE (WhileIfSinceHowBecauseOnly ifNowthatEven though)

Connie the Conjunction

• Don't forget Comma rules:

• Use a comma before a FANBOYS when you have a complete sentence on both sides.

• If a subordinating conjunction is at the front, then you must include a comma in the middle of the sentence at the break.

Multiple Select

Check the words that are conjunctions.

• Since

• Pandora

• arrived,

• we

• started.

Multiple Select

Check the words that are conjunctions.

• She

• smiled,

• but

• we

• jumped.

Multiple Select

Check the words that are conjunctions.

• Not only

• players,

• but also

• the

• coaches.