Understanding Parts of Speech

What part of speech describes an action?

• adjective

• noun

• verb

• adverb

Identify the noun in the following sentence: 'The cat sat on the mat.'

• mat

• cat

• the

• sat

Which word in the sentence is an adjective: 'The tall building is impressive.'?

• tall

• impressive

• building

• the

What part of speech connects words or groups of words?

• adjective

• noun

• conjunction

• verb

In the sentence 'She quickly ran to the store', what is the adverb?

• quickly

• she

• store

• ran

Identify the verb in the sentence: 'He plays the guitar.'

• the

• He

• plays

• guitar

What part of speech is 'and' in the sentence: 'I like apples and oranges.'?

• noun

• verb

• conjunction

• adjective

In the phrase 'The red car', what is 'red'?

• adjective

• adverb

• verb

• noun

What part of speech is used to express a state of being?

• noun

• adverb

• conjunction

• verb

Identify the pronoun in the sentence: 'They went to the park.'

• Them

• You

• They

• We