Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech

Types of Parts of speech

Noun

Pronoun

Verb

Adverb

Adjective

Preposition

Conjunction

Interjection

Noun

A noun is a word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place. Most sentences contain at least one noun or pronoun.

Pronoun

a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).

Some examples of personal pronouns are I, you, he, she, we, they, him, her, he, she, us and them.

Adjective

Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast.

Conjunction

a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if).

Preposition

A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. Some examples of prepositions are words like "in," "at," "on," "of," and "to."

Interjection

Interjections are words used to express strong feeling or sudden emotion.

Adverb

a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there).

Multiple Choice

What words in this sentence are nouns?

People say every snowflake has its own pattern.

• People, its, every

• People, snowflake, pattern

• Every, snowflake, its

• People, own, every

Multiple Choice

What is the common noun in this sentence?

From Main Street, walk along the river until you hit Fairfield Street.

• Main Street

• river

• Fairfield Street

• you

Multiple Choice

Identify the proper nouns in the following sentence.

Bobbie, Hector, and Nicole went to the mall.

• Nicole, mall, went

• Bobbie, Nicole, mall

• Hector, mall

• Bobbie, Hector, Nicole

Multiple Choice

The old shoe was full of mud.

• shoe

• was

• old

• of

Multiple Choice

Ben played with his huge teddy bear.

• Ben

• with

• his

• huge

Multiple Choice

TINY is an adjective of...

• shape

• size

• opinion

• colour

Multiple Choice

Identify conjunctions: I went to tutoring, for I didn't understand the homework.

• tutoring

• understand

• for

• homework

Multiple Choice

What is the conjunction in the following sentence? Luke Skywalker and Han Solo set out to rescue Princess Leia. 

• Set

• Rescue

• And

• To

Multiple Choice

What is the conjunction in the following sentence:

I do not wear rain boots nor rain coats.

• not

• nor

• wear

• rain

Multiple Choice

Interjections are a

• sentence.

• langauge.

• part of speech.

• person's name.

Multiple Choice

Interjections are used to show the speaker's

• skill.

• emotions.

• intelligence.

• physical appearance.

Multiple Choice

Where do interjections go in a sentence?

• the beginning only

• the middle only

• the end only

• anywhere

Multiple Choice

True or false: An interjection is always one word.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

An interjection can be set apart by

• a comma.

• a number.

• parentheses.

• quotation marks.

Multiple Choice

Identify the preposition.

A saguaro cactus grows in the desert.

• in the desert

• grow

• the desert

• in

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT a preposition?

• inside

• park

• after

• before

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

Please place the forks and knives on the table.

• forks and knives

• on the table

• please place

• table

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

You should come over after school.

• after school

• come over

• you should

• school