Word Classes/Parts of Speech

4 Main Parts of Speech

4 Main Parts of Speech

Nouns

Verbs

Adjectives

Adverbs

​What are Nouns?

Nouns are naming words. They name people, animals, places, things and ideas. They can be countable or uncountable.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a noun?

• correction

• police

• quick

• orange

Multiple Choice

Which of the following word is a noun?

• painted

• beautiful

• artist

• quietly

Multiple Select

The participants are playing some interesting games quietly.

Pick the nouns in the sentence.

• participants

• interesting

• games

• quietly

​What are Verbs

Verbs are saying or action words. Verbs can be in past tense or present tense.

Examples of verbs:

walk, jump, carry, make

Multiple Choice

Which of the following word is a verb?

• took

• picture

• pretty

• torchlight

Multiple Choice

Identify the verb in this sentence:

The teacher wrote something on the whiteboard.

• teacher

• something

• wrote

• whiteboard

Multiple Choice

Which of the following underlined word is used as a verb?

My favourite hobby is swimming.

I swam in the morning yesterday.

I like to go for a swim.

• swimming

• swam

• swim

What are Adjectives?

Adjectives are describing words. They tell us more about a noun.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following word is an adjective?

• large

• elephant

• loudly

• make

Multiple Select

Which of the following underlined words are adjectives?

The dogs bark at the children.

The loud noise woke me up.

The pillow is soft.

The quiet girl read silently.

• bark

• loud

• soft

• quiet

Multiple Choice

(Which of the following underlined word is used as an adjective?)

The angry man walked out of the shop.

My mother scolded me angrily.

The teacher was full of anger when she saw the mess.

• angry

• angrily

• anger