Parts of Speech

Which part of speech expresses an action or a state of being?

• adverb

• interjection

• preposition

• verb

What do pronouns replace?

• prepositions

• verbs

• nouns and noun phrases

• adjectives

What is an adverb?

• a word that connects words, phrases and clauses

• a word that modifies verbs and some other parts of speech

• a word that modifies nouns and pronouns

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

What is an adjective?

• a word that describes nouns and pronouns

• an interrupting word

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

• a word that connects words, phrases and clauses

What part of speech would you use to describe where, when or the direction something is going?

• conjunction

• preposition

• interjection

• pronoun

The scruffy dog barked loudly.

• barked

• loudly

• dog

• scruffy

Hey, I got a bicycle and a scooter for my birthday!

• hey

• got

• bicycle

• and

I walked up the hill to wait for Lily.

• I walked up the hill to wait for her.

• I walked down the hill to wait for Leslie.

• I climbed up the hill to wait for Leslie.

• I walked quickly up the hill to wait for Leslie.

Choose the sentence where the verb is underlined.

• Aisha suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Aisha suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Aisha suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Aisha suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

Choose an adjective you could add to describe the moon.

Finn gazed up at the moon and the stars.

• his

• bright

• counted

• sleepily