Parts of Speech Quiz

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.

• Noun
• Verb
• Adjective
• Adverb

words used to describe nouns or pronouns. They are (usually) not necessary for a sentence to function, but they give additional details. They may indicate opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, or purpose (in that order)

• Article
• Verb
• Adjective
• Adverb

words that connect words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence.

• Article
• Conjunction
• Preposition
• Adverb

a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.

• Article
• Adverb
• Preposition
• Interjection

a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase.

• Pronoun
• Verb
• Article
• Interjection

Person, place, thing, object or idea. Can be subjects or objects.

• Adverb
• Verb
• Noun
• Adjective

noun markers that specify whether a noun is definite or indefinite. They proceed common nouns.

• Preposition
• Interjection
• Article
• Adjective

A word that modifies or describes a verb. Usually ends with -ly

• Noun
• Adverb
• Article
• Adjective

a word used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, or place.

• Verb
• Article
• Preposition
• Adjective

Which of these words in the following sentence is a preposition: The dog quickly tripped over a small, brown rock.

• Small
• A
• Over
• Tripped