Grade 6 Parts of Speech Quiz

a word or group of words that show position, location, or relationship between a noun & some other word in a sentence (in, on, above, below...)

• pronoun
• adjective
• noun
• prepositional phrase

words that show emotion or surprise; usually followed by an exclamation point (with great emotion) or a comma (when used as part of a sentence)

• subject
• interjection
• conjunction
• predicate

a group of words that does NOT involve both a noun & a verb (subject & predicate (at the park, above the clouds...;) NOT a complete sentence

• phrase
• noun
• verb
• adjective

less specific word used in place of a noun (I, me, you, they, them, he, she,...); be sure it isn't VAGUE

• preposition
• adjective
• predicate
• pronoun

connects words or groups of words (phrases & clauses); "and," "but," & "or" are examples

• conjunction
• adverb
• noun
• pronoun

a person, place, thing, or idea; the SUBJECT of a sentence; necessary to make a complete sentence 

• predicate
• verb
• noun
• adverb

a word that describes a nouns; in a sentence, this is USUALLY found BEFORE the noun it describes (happy student)

• adjective
• adverb
• preposition
• pronoun

a words that modifies / describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb; can be found before or after the word it describes (ran quickly or quickly ran); often ends in "-ly"

• adjective
• adverb
• noun
• interjection

part of a sentence that expresses action or state of being; the PREDICATE part of a sentence; necessary to make a complete sentence along with a noun

• noun
• subject
• preposition
• verb

groups of words in our language used to build sentences

• fidgets
• parts of speech
• punctuation
• quotations