Identify the part of speech of a word in context

Read the text and identify the nonsense word.

The car is making awful noises – I think the alternator is scrinding against the battery connections.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Pronoun

• Adjective

• Determiner

• Proper noun

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

The leprechaun had painted his neat and tidy little house a vactulous shade of green.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Proper noun

• Determiner

• Adjective

• Pronoun

• Verb

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

The coat was very smart, and woven in wool. It had six buttons, a tie belt and was patterned with the Pinkerton tartan.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Noun

• Verb

• Pronoun

• Adjective

• Proper noun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

I love it when I hear that piece of music – it’s so mimsical, I find it captivating and it makes me feel so happy!

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Adjective

• Proper noun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Read the text and identify the nonsense word.

There were several oranges, a few bananas, many pears, some grapes and cravan apples on the market stall.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Determiner

• Proper noun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1G

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

High court judges have answered the question ‘What constitutes a newspaper?’ by posticating that it does not have to be a particular size or shape, or made of paper, but does have to contain news.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Adjective

• Pronoun

• Determiner

• Proper noun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

The recipe called for shallots, capers, leeks and parsley to be herbinged into butter and used as a tasty sauce for a cold terrine.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Adjective

• Pronoun

• Determiner

• Proper noun

Read the text and identify the nonsense word.

Hurry up! The party will be starting soon! If we don’t leave now ve will start without us!

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Adjective

• Determine

• Proper noun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

When my folks moved house last year, some of their boxes went missing. They lost some of their books, some of vesun photographs, and a few of their favorite pictures.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Noun

• Adjective

• Determiner

• Proper noun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1G

Read the text and identify the nonsense word:

Rupert was beginning to suspect that Portia was suffering from ankhelism, due to the fact that on their travels she insisted on going to every museum to see the Egyptian relics, and at home spent her time researching King Tutankhamen and his wife Ankhesenpaaten.

Which part of speech is the nonsense word using?

• Verb

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Adjective

• Determiner

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A