Y8 Term 2 Week 1 revision quiz!

What type of word names a person, place, thing, feeling, quality or idea?

• Noun

• Adverb

• Adjective

• Preposition

In the following sentence, what part of speech is the word in red

I swam across the pool.

• Noun

• adjective

• conjunction

• verb

Pronouns stand in for nouns.

Eg, I, me, you, we, us, they, it.

• True

• False

Verbs show an action or state of being. They are often called 'doing words'.

Which is the verb in this sentence:

The cat ran across the room.

• cat

• ran

• room

• The

What part of speech tells us more about a noun?

• Adjectives such as red, tall, angry, lonely

• Verbs such as walk, think, run, appear

• Pronouns such as I, you, me, we, them

• Adverbs such as quickly, angrily, soon, recently

What kind of word is the word in red?

The red car won the race.

• Adjective

• Noun

• Verb

• Pronoun

Adverbs tell us more about a verb.

Which is the adverb in this sentence?

The rain stopped suddenly.

• Rain

• Stopped

• Suddenly

• The

Synonyms are words with similar meanings, such as the words large and big.

• True

• False

Antonyms are words which have opposite meanings, such as the words hot and cold.

• True

• False

Prepositions link a noun or a pronoun to another word.

Common prepositions include in, out, on, off, around, under, over, with, before, up, down, inside, below and through.

Which word is a preposition in this sentence?

I catch the bus after school.

• I

• the

• bus

• after