Parts of Speech

What part of speech tells you an action occurring?

• a noun

• an adjective

• a verb

• a prepositional phrase

Which part of speech tells you that a word is a person, place, or thing?

• an adverb

• a verb

• a conjunction

• a noun

What part of speech will describe a verb to the reader?

• an adverb

• an adjective

• a noun

• an interjection

Which part of speech is used to describe a noun?

• an adverb

• a noun

• an adjective

• a verb

"Wow!" is an example of which part of speech?

• verb

• adjective

• interjection

• preposition

A complete sentence must contain a _____________ and a ____________.

What are five parts of speech?

• articles, nouns, fragments, verbs, onomatopoeias

• nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns

• periods, commas, question marks, semi-colons, exclamation marks

• air, water, earth, fire, light

For questions 8-10, complete the sentence with the most correct part of speech.

She was __________________ so fast that she caught the person that had a five second head start.

The boy had to move _________________ to get to the front of the line.

The _____________ whale swam to the surface of the ocean so she could take a deep breath of fresh air.