Middle School Parts of Speech

What part of speech is the highlighted word?
My sister will specialize in children's medicine after she finishes medical school.

• verb
• noun
• adjective
• adverb

What part of speech is the highlighted word in this sentence?
There is an increasing need for well trained female engineers.

• verb
• adjective
• noun
• adverb

What part of speech is the highlighted word?
The Artic region has extremely cold winters.

• noun
• verb
• adjective
• adverb

What part of speech will answer these three questions:
What kind?
Which one?
How many?

• adjectives
• adverbs
• prepositions
• conjunctions

What part of speech will answer these four questions:
How?
When?
Where?
Why? or To What Extent?

• adjectives
• pronouns
• verbs
• adverbs

Choose the intensive pronoun in the sentence:
We ourselves planned the dance routine that our team performed for you this evening.

• we
• you
• ourselves
• our

Choose the coordinating conjunction in the sentence.
I wanted to stay home because I was tired, but my mom made me go to school.

• because
• but
• to
• was

Choose the interjection in the sentence.
Wow!  I am playing an online game!

• playing
• game
• online
• Wow

Choose the preposition in the sentence.
The students chose the game instead of the test, but they said that they should try again tomorrow.

• tomorrow
• instead of
• again
• that

Choose the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
I moved the couch against the back wall.

• against the back wall
• against the wall
• moved the desk
• against