Parts of Speech

What is a noun?

• A word that represents a color

• A word that represents an action

• A word that represents a feeling

• A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

Which of the following is an example of a proper noun?

• apple

• running

• New York City

• happiness

Identify the noun in the following sentence: Christina chased SitLInPaing.

• chased

• SitLInPaing

• Christina

• mouse

What is a verb?

• A form of transportation

• A type of fruit

• A word that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being

• A type of clothing

Give an example of an action verb.

• Christina jumps

• HtetAungLwin is blue

• SitLInPaing runs

• Juno swims

Identify the verb in the following sentence: Juno is reading a book.

• running

• jumping

• sitting

• reading

What is an adjective?

• A type of fruit

• A musical instrument

• Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

• A form of transportation

Christina, Loriko, Juno, SitLInPaing, and HtetAungLwin are discussing descriptive adjectives. Give an example of a descriptive adjective.

• Beautiful

• Tall

• Fast

• Delicious

Identify the adjective in the following sentence: SitLInPaing saw the big, red balloon floating away.

• big

• balloon

• red

• floating

Christina, Loriko, SitLInPaing, HtetAungLwin, and Juno are discussing about adverbs. What is an adverb?

• A type of insect

• A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb

• A musical instrument

• A type of food