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 ____________.

(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 (a)   so fast that she caught the person that had a five second head start.

The boy had to move (a)   to get to the front of the line.

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