Parts of Speech Quiz

My great-grandfather, who was a professional baseball player, demonstrated how to throw a fastball.

• adverb

• preposition

• noun

• conjunction

Did Elizabeth teach herself the name of every constellation visible in the Northern Hemisphere?

• interjection

• adjective

• preposition

• pronoun

Charlie might have been elected junior-class president, but he did not campaign at all the week before elections.

• verb

• pronoun

• conjunction

• adjective

Wow! Two peregrine falcons have constructed a nest on top of that skyscraper!

• adverb

• interjection

• noun

• preposition

Some roots are covered with thin projections, called root hairs, that absorb water and nutrients.

• adjective

• pronoun

• conjunction

• adverb

Proudly tossing its head, the Arabian stallion trotted in front of the admiring judges.

• interjection

• verb

• adverb

• noun

If it were my choice, either Estella or Linda would be my partner in the salsa-dancing competition.

• adverb

• preposition

• interjection

• conjunction

According to wildlife biologists, many different reptiles, insects, and small mammals live on, around, and beneath sand dunes.

• pronoun

• adverb

• preposition

• verb

In the nineteenth century, Edmonia Lewis, who was African American and Ojibwa, created a marble sculpture of Cleopatra; this artwork, which was discovered in a storage yard during the 1970s, was exhibited at the Smithsonian.

• conjunction

• noun

• interjection

• adjective

James is the student who yearns to be president of our school’s environmental club; he also wants to supervise this year’s recycling drive.

• preposition

• pronoun

• adverb

• verb