VERBAL PREP: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs

PARTS OF SPEECH

NOUNS

PRONOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

NOUN

person, place, thing or idea

Multiple Choice

What is a noun?

• person, action word, thing, idea

• person, place, modifier, idea

• person, place, thing, idea

• place, thing, idea, item

Multiple Choice

Which group of words contains ONLY nouns?

• man, old, tall

• school, new, slowly

• love, baby, under

• computer, school, teacher

PRONOUN

A word that replaces a noun

Tommy --> He

girls --> them

Tommy and I --> We

Multiple Choice

What is a pronoun?

• A word that replaces a noun

• A word that describes something

• A word that shows action

• A word that shows strong feeling

Multiple Choice

Which word is a pronoun?

• He

• Them

• They

• All of these words

VERB

--Shows action

--Action can be physical or mental

THREE TYPES OF VERBS

ACTION - MENTAL OR PHYSICAL

LINKING - STATE OF BEING

HELPING - HELP FORM OTHER VERB TENSES

Multiple Choice

What is a verb?

• A word that expresses action - mental or physical

• A word that describes an adverb

• A word that replaces an adverb

• A word that describes an adjective

Multiple Choice

What are the three types of verbs?

• action, physical, mental

• action, linking, physical

• linking, physical, state of being

• action, linking, state of being

Multiple Choice

Identify the verb in this sentence:

The snow fluttered from the dark sky.

• snow

• fluttered

• dark

• sky

Multiple Choice

Identify the verbs in this sentence:

My mother drinks coffee, and my dad likes hot tea.

• drinks, coffee

• likes, tea

• drinks, tea

• drinks, likes

Multiple Choice

Identify the linking verb in this sentence:

Ms. Frazier is my English teacher at Schofield Middle School.

• Ms. Frazier

• teacher

• at

• is

Multiple Choice

Identify the helping verb in this sentence:

Ms. Clark was teaching us about verbs.

• teaching

• was

• verbs

• about

ADJECTIVE

Modifies nouns or pronouns

Answers three questions:

1. How many?

2. Which one?

3. What kind?

Multiple Choice

What is an adjective?

• a word that replaces a noun

• a word that tells how something is done

• a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

• a word that describes a noun or a pronoun

Multiple Choice

Which question does an adjective NOT answer?

• How many?

• When?

• Which kind?

• Which one?

Multiple Choice

The new mayor decided to have an urgent conference.

What are the adjectives in this sentence?

• new, urgent

• new, decided

• urgent, conference

• mayor, conference

ADVERBS

• Answer the following questions

• The boy ran quickly. (HOW did he run?)

• The boy ran today. (WHEN did he run?)

• The boy ran outside. (WHERE did he run?)

• The boy ran very fast. (TO WHAT EXTENT did he run fast?)

ADVERBS: What do they modify?

Verbs: The dog SNORED loudly. (What is the verb?)

Adjectives: The dark BLUE car is mine. (What is the adjective?)

Other Adverbs: The dog ate too QUICKLY. (What is the adverb?)

Multiple Choice

What is an adverb?

• It is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun.

• It is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

• It is a word that answers how, where, when, and to what extent?

• It is a word that answers how many, which one, and what kind?

Multiple Choice

What words do adverbs modify or change?

• nouns and pronouns

• verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

• verbs, nouns, and adjectives

• nouns and verbs

Multiple Choice

Tamara always makes her twin bed in the morning.

What is the adverb in this sentence?

• Tamara

• always

• makes

• twin

Multiple Choice

The horse trotted rapidly across the green pasture yesterday.

What are the adverbs in this sentence?

• horse, trotted

• trotted, rapidly

• horse, green

• rapidly, yesterday

Multiple Choice

The lamp in the window shone brightly, so even though it was a dark night, Helen had no trouble making her way across the field and to the house.

Is the underlined word an adjective or adverb?

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

The colorful balloons floated away up into the air.

Is the underlined word and adjective or an adverb?

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

The feisty cat turned away and ran.

Is the underlined word an adjective or an adverb?

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

The bus driver slammed on his brakes suddenly, just avoiding the car.

Is the underlined word an adjective or adverb?

• adjective

• adverb

TIME FOR REVIEW

NOUNS

PRONOUNS

VERBS

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

Multiple Choice

Identify the part of speech for the underlined word in each sentence.

The blue car would not start this morning.

• noun

• adjective

• pronoun

• verb

• adverb

Multiple Choice

The red sports car started immediately.

• noun

• verb

• pronoun

• adjective

• adverb

Multiple Choice

My father worked on the blue car for long time.

• pronoun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

• noun

Multiple Choice

Would you meet me on the corner?

• noun

• pronoun

• verb

• adverb

• adjective

Multiple Choice

Dogs are wonderful companions for most people.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• pronoun

• adverb

Multiple Choice

I bet you a dollar that you are wrong.

• noun

• pronoun

• adverb

• verb

• adjective