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Parts of Speech Week 1 QUIZ: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, and Adjectives

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Action words are...
a)
nouns
b)
verbs
c)
adjectives
d)
adverbs
e)
pronouns
2.
2. Words that describe nouns are ...
a)
nouns
b)
verbs
c)
adjectives
d)
adverbs
e)
pronouns
3.
3. Words that represent people, places, things, or ideas are ...
a)
nouns
b)
verbs
c)
adjectives
d)
adverbs
e)
pronouns
4.
4. Words that describe verbs are called ...
a)
nouns
b)
verbs
c)
adjectives
d)
adverbs
e)
pronouns
5.
5. Words that take the place of a previously stated noun.
a)
nouns
b)
verbs
c)
adjectives
d)
adverbs
e)
pronouns
6.
6. Which of the words in the following sentence are nouns: "The cute, black puppies wagged their tails happily and excitedly jumped into the boy's lap."
a)
happily, excitedly
b)
puppies, tails, lap
c)
cute, black, boy's
d)
wagged, jumped
e)
their
7.
7. Which of the words in the following sentence are adverbs: "The cute, black puppies wagged their tails happily and excitedly jumped into the boy's lap."
a)
happily, excitedly
b)
puppies, tails, lap
c)
cute, black
d)
wagged, jumped
e)
their
8.
8. Which of the words in the following sentence are adjectives: "The cute, black puppies wagged their tails happily and excitedly jumped into the boy's lap."
a)
happily, excitedly
b)
puppies, tails, lap
c)
cute, black
d)
wagged, jumped
e)
their
9.
9. Which of the words in the following sentence are verbs: "The cute, black puppies wagged their tails happily and excitedly jumped into the boy's lap."
a)
happily, excitedly
b)
puppies, tails, lap
c)
cute, black
d)
wagged, jumped
e)
their
10.
10. Which of the words in the following are pronouns: "The cute, black puppies wagged their tails happily and excitedly jumped into the boy's lap."
a)
happily, excitedly
b)
puppies, tails, lap
c)
cute, black
d)
wagged, jumped
e)
their
11.
11. Select the appropriate subject pronoun to replace Samantha in the following sentence: "Samantha walked the dogs with Rachel."
a)
She
b)
Him
c)
Her
d)
You
e)
Them
12.
12. Select the appropriate object pronoun to replace dogs in the following sentence: "Samantha walked the dogs with Rachel."
a)
she
b)
him
c)
her
d)
you
e)
them
13.
13. Select the appropriate subject pronoun to replace Rachel in the following sentence: "Samantha walked the dogs with Rachel."
a)
she
b)
him
c)
her
d)
you
e)
them
14.
16. Which word in the following sentence is the proper noun: "David brought a boy puppy and a girl puppy home to raise."
a)
boy
b)
David
c)
puppy
d)
home
e)
girl
15.
Which word in the follow sentence is the common noun: "Target had a great selection of holiday birds and Miss Wong's obsession began."
a)
birds
b)
Target
c)
Miss Wong
d)
great
e)
had
16.

Common nouns are...

a)

The regular name for something

b)

The proper name for something, is capitalized

c)

An action word

d)

Describes the noun

17.

Proper nouns are...

a)

A word that usually ends in -ly

b)

Words that describe a corgi

c)

Nouns that have a specific name, are capitalized

d)

Nouns that have a regular name, are lowercase