**Parts of Speech Quiz

A NOUN is:

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A describing word

• An action or state of being

• A word that connects two things

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

A VERB is:

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A describing word

• An action or state of being

• A word that connects two things

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

An ADJECTIVE is:

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A word that describes a noun

• An action or state of being

• A word that describe a verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

An ADVERB is:

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A word that describes a noun

• An action or state of being

• A word that describes a verb

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

A PRONOUN is:

• A word that describes a noun (sparkly shoes, little house)

• A word that replaces or refers to a noun (I, you, they)

• A word that connects two things (or, so, but)

• An action or state of being (ran, was)

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

A CONJUNCTION is:

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A describing word

• An action or state of being

• A word that connects two things

What does FANBOY mean?

Which words from the sentence below are nouns?

Amy and Omar waited for the bright yellow school bus with their backpacks.

• Amy

• and

• waited

• backpacks

Which words from the following sentence are adjectives?

The sunshine filled her with a happy, fluffy feeling

• Sunshine

• Fluffy

• Happy

• Filled

Which words from the sentence below are verbs?

They ran behind the big oak desk.

• Because

• They

• Scared

• Ran