Parts of Speech Quiz

Which part of speech is a word that names a person, place, concept, or object?

• Verb

• Adverb

• Adjective

• Noun

What are the two categories of nouns?

• Adverbs and conjunctions

• Common nouns and proper nouns

• Proper nouns and adjectives

• Common nouns and pronouns

What part of speech are words you substitute for specific nouns?

• Pronoun

• Adverb

• Conjunction

• Preposition

Which part of speech describes nouns?

• Preposition

• Adjective

• Pronoun

• Adverb

What part of speech are words that describe specific actions?

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

• Noun

What part of speech describes an adjective, a verb, or another adverb?

• Conjunction

• Preposition

• Pronoun

• Adverb

What part of speech tells you the relationships between other words in a sentence?

• Adverb

• Pronoun

• Preposition

• Conjunction

What part of speech makes it possible to build complex sentences that express multiple ideas?

• Adverb

• Pronoun

• Conjunction

• Preposition

What part of speech are the words 'a', 'an', and 'the'?

• Adjective

• Noun

• Adverb

• Article

If a word has the ending -ly, what part of speech is it most likely to be?

• Article

• Adverb

• Noun

• Adjective