Parts of Speech Multiple Choice Quiz

What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or an idea?

• Noun

• pronoun

• adjective

• adverb

Which of these modifies a noun or a pronoun?

• Pronoun

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Preposition

What expresses an action or a state of being?

• Noun

• Adjective

• Conjunction

• Verb

Which part of speech expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence?

• Preposition

• Interjection

• Verb

• Conjunction

What part of a sentence tells something about the subject?

• Subject

• Predicate

• Object

• Complement

Which part of speech answers the questions; when, where, how, how much and why?

• Preposition

• Adverb

• Adjective

• Verb

What part of speech answers questions; which, what kind of and how many?

• Adjective

• Interjection

• Noun

• Adverb

What shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other words in a sentence?

• Conjuntion

• Preposition

• Pronoun

• Adjective

What joins words or groups of words like phrases and clauses?

• Pronoun

• Verb

• Conjunction

• Interjection