Parts of Speech Review

Parts of Speech/Usage

I can:

- identify parts of speech

- determine if the word usage is correct based on its part of speech

Open Ended

What are all of the parts of speech you remember?

Why does Parts of Speech matter?

• • They help us understand how sentences work.

  • They help us write clearly and correctly.

  • They can help us create different effects in our writing.

  • They can help us learn other languages.

​Noun

a person, place, thing, or idea

​

​Ex.

​janitor

​school

​pencil

language

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?

• noun

• preposition

• adjective

• pronoun

Multiple Choice

Identify the nouns: Summer allows the freedom to do what you want.

• Summer, what

• freedom, want

• Summer, freedom

• allows, you

​Pronoun

​a word that takes the place of a noun; refers to another word

​

​Ex.

​Miss Schultz made this lesson.

​I made it.

​

​Mitch went to the park with his friends.

​He went to the park with them.

​Pronoun

Common pronouns include...

​

​I, me, mine, myself, you, yours, yourself, we, us, ours, ourselves, he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, they, them, their, themselves, it, its, and itself.

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech replaces a noun?

• conjunction

• pronoun

• adverb

• preposition

Multiple Choice

Olivia carried HER books upstairs to her room.

• noun

• pronoun

• preposition

• adverb

Multiple Choice

What is the pronoun in the sentence...
 "She was able to get the job done."

• to
• job
• she
• was able

Multiple Choice

Identify the pronouns: Everyone loves The Office except for people who don't know any better.

• Everyone, who

• The Office, people

• who, better

• Everyone, any

​Adjective

​a word that describes a noun or pronoun

​

​Ex.

​The beautiful woman was a model.

​

​He was very nervous for his first day of public school.

​

​The and a/an are always adjectives!!

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech describes a noun or pronoun?

• verb

• preposition

• conjunction

• adjective

Multiple Choice

Identify the adverbs: Deja did not do well on the first test, so she studied more for the next one.

• did, so, for

• well, first, next

• not, for, more

• not, well, more

Multiple Select

Identify the adjectives:

• jealous

• Picasso

• many

• jog

Multiple Select

"But in reading great literature, I become a thousand men and yet remain myself" (Lewis). Identify the adjective(s).

• reading

• great

• literature

• thousand

• men

​Verb

​an action, occurrence, or state of being

"It's what you do!"

​

​Ex.

​give

​hike

​worked

​is

​forgave

Multiple Choice

Define a verb:

• A word that modifies nouns

• A word that modifies adverbs

• An action word

• A person, place, thing, or idea

Multiple Choice

"I don't trust words. I even question actions. But I never doubt patterns."

Choose the answer with only VERBS from this passage:

• I, never, question

• words, patterns, doubt

• even, never, trust

• trust, question, doubt

Multiple Select

Which words from the sentence below are verbs?

Because they were scared, they ran and hid behind the big oak desk.

• Because

• Were

• Scared

• Ran

• Hid

​Adverb

​a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

​Adverbs usually end in "-ly."

​Describe the how or when of the verb, or add something to the adjective/adverb

​

​Ex.

​happily, early, thoughtfully, so, not, very

​

​She unfortunately submitted her very rushed essay late.

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb?

• verb

• noun

• adverb

• adjective

Multiple Choice

"I understand now that I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world" (Melton). Identify the adverb(s):

• I

• understand

• messy

• deeply

• mess

Multiple Choice

"They should never have given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army" (Atwood). Identify the adverb from the passage:

• They

• never

• given

• be

​Preposition

​a word used to describe direction, time, and place/location of an object or action

​

​Ex.

​in, to, into, about, behind, on, during, after, within, until, near, etc.

Multiple Choice

A PREPOSITION is:

• A word that links a noun to another word

• A word that joins clauses or sentences or words

• A word that describes a noun

• A person, place, thing, or idea

Multiple Choice

I left my shoes under the kitchen table.

• pronoun

• preposition

• conjunction

• verb

Multiple Choice

Identify the prepositions: Mrs. Braun brings a mug with coffee in it for energy in the mornings.

• brings, coffee, it

• a, with, mornings

• with, in, for

• a, in, it

Multiple Choice

What part of speech is the underlined word?

I hid my dirty gym clothes in my locker.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Conjunction

• Preposition

​Conjunction

a word that connects sentences or words

​

​Ex.

​and, as, because, but, for, just as, or, neither, nor, not only, so, whether, yet

Multiple Choice

Identify the conjunctions: Gnomeo & Juliet is not an accurate adaptation because they don't die; however, I might have to watch it anyway.

• not, accurate

• because, however

• might, anyway

• an, have

Multiple Choice

A CONJUNCTION is:

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A describing word

• An action or state of being

• A word that connects two things

​Interjection

​a word or phrase that is an exclamation

​usually separate from the rest of the sentence

​

​Ex.

​Oh!, Wow!, Really!, Congrats!,

Bless you!, No way!

Multiple Choice

Find the interjection in the following sentence.

Phew, this dictionary is heavy.

• Phew

• this

• dictionary

• heavy

Multiple Choice

Find the interjection in the following sentence.

Ouch, it's time to get back to that dictionary.

• Ouch

• time

• back

• dictionary

Open Ended

What are the eight parts of speech we learned about today? Do your best with spelling. You only have 1 minute.