Parts of Speech Review

What is a noun?

• expresses an action or state of being

• connects words, phrases, or clauses

• a person, place, thing, or idea

• expresses surprise or other emotions

What is the purpose of adjectives?

• takes the place of a noun

• a person, place, thing, or idea

• expresses an action or state of being

• describes a noun

What is the purpose of adverbs?

• connects words, phrases, or clauses

• describes a noun

• describes or modifies a verb, adjectives, or another adverb

• helps define nouns

What is the purpose of prepositions?

• establishes a relationship between a noun and the rest of the sentence

• express surprise or other emotions

• a specific person, place, thing, or idea

• help define nouns

What is the purpose of a conjunction?

• describes a noun

• connects words, phrases, or clauses

• expresses an action of state of being

• establishes a relationship between a noun and the rest of the sentence

What is an interjection?

• it expresses surprise or another emotion

• describes or modified a verb, adjective, or another adverb

• connects words, phrases, and clauses

• helps define nouns

What part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence?

No one had yet flown a powered aircraft successfully.

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

Answer explanation

Powered describes aircraft which is a noun so powered is an adjective.

What part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence?

In Dayton, Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright expertly repaired bicycles.

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

Answer explanation

Repaired is what they did.

Repaired is a Verb.

What part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence?

They were quite popular members of the community.

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Preposition

• conjunction

Answer explanation

Quite describes how popular they were. Popular is an adjective. Quite is an Adverb.

What part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence?

They bicycled enthusiastically and also studied gliders there.

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Preposition

• Conjunction

Answer explanation

And is a coordination conjunction that joins the first clause with the second clause.