#2: 8 Parts of Speech Review/Practice

What is an adverb?

• a word that connects words, phrases and clauses

• a word that modifies or describes verbs, adjectives, & other adverbs

• a word that modifies or describes nouns and pronouns

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

What do pronouns replace?

• prepositions

• verbs

• nouns (and noun phrases)

• adjectives

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

• adverb

• interjection

• preposition

• verb

What is an adjective?

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

• a word that modifies or describes nouns and pronouns

• a word that expresses a lot of emotion

• a word that connects words, phrases and clauses

Which part of speech is used to tell where, when or the direction something is going?

• conjunction

• pronoun

• preposition

• interjection

Read the sentence, and choose the noun.

The scruffy dog barked loudly.

• barked

• loudly

• dog

• scruffy

Read the sentence, and choose the conjunction.

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

• Hey

• got

• bicycle

• and

Read the sentence below. How would you rewrite it using a pronoun?

I walked up the hill to wait for Lily.

• 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.

• I walked up the hill to wait for her.

Choose the sentence where the verb is bold.

• Kelly suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Kelly suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Kelly suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Kelly suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

Read the sentence below, and choose an adjective you could add to describe the moon.

Finn gazed up at the moon and the stars.

• his

• bright

• counted

• sleepily