Parts of Speech

What is a noun?

• An object

• A place, situation, or action

• A person, place, or object

• An object, situation, or place

What are adverbs?

• An action a person does

• A word that describes a verb

• A word that describe a noun

• A word that replaces a noun

Which of the following describes a verb (choose all the correct answers)

• An action a human can do

• A state of being

• A descriptive word

• A word that can indicate ownership

What are adjectives?

• Objects

• Actions

• Words that describe verbs

• Words that describe nouns

What are pronouns?

• Words that can replace nouns

• Words that can replace verbs

• Words that describe verbs

• Words that describe nouns

Identify the adverb and the adjective in this sentence:

Emani ran quickly down the quiet hallway to her next class

• quiet and hallway

• ran and quickly

• quickly and quiet

• Emani and quickly

Read the following sentence, then choose a pronoun to replace the underline noun with.

Jordan needs a new calculator for Jordan's math class.

• he

• their

• his

• him

Which of the following adjectives would be the best to make this sentence grammatically correct?

I hate rainy days in winter; the skies are ________ and the air is _______.

• cloudy; hot

• clear; warm

• black; dry

• grey; cold

Which of the following verbs would make this sentence grammatically correct.

Margaret needs to _______ the recipe before she starts _______.

• write; cooking

• read; cooking

• eat; sleeping

• burn; baking

Which of the following adverbs would make this sentence grammatically correct:

Abby needs to read the directions _______ before she starts to build her rocket.

• carefully

• quickly

• slowly

• diagonally