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Parts of Speech

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C
An amazing student wrote stories to brave soldiers
in Iraq.

What part of speech is "amazing"?
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
C
An amazing student wrote stories to brave soldiers
in Iraq.

What part of speech is "brave"?
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
C
An amazing student wrote stories to brave soldiers
in Iraq.

What part of speech is "an"?
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
B
An amazing student wrote stories to brave soldiers
in Iraq.

What part of speech is "wrote"?
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
A
An amazing student wrote stories to brave soldiers
in Iraq.

What part of speech is "soldiers"?
A) noun
B) verb
C) adjective
D) adverb
A
An amazing student wrote stories to brave soldiers
in Iraq.

Which words are modifiers?
A) amazing and brave
B) stories and soldiers
C) student and soldier
B
After the storm, we walked in the puddles from our house to the end of the street.

Which words are prepositions?
A) storm, puddle, house, street
B) after, in, from, to, of
C) walked
B
What does a pronoun do?

A) answers how, when or where
B) takes the place of a noun
C) describes a noun
D) names a position
C
The crazy cat sang loudly on our favorite show.

Which word(s) are modifiers?
A) cat, show
B) sang
C) crazy, loudly, favorite
A
The crazy cat sang loudly on our favorite show.

Which word(s) are nouns?
A) cat, show
B) sang
C) crazy, loudly, favorite
B
The crazy cat sang loudly on our favorite show.

Which word is an adverb?
A) crazy
B) loudly
C) favorite
B
The crazy cat sang loudly on our favorite show.

Which word is a preposition?
A) the
B) on
C) our
C
The crazy cat sang loudly on our favorite show.

Which word is a pronoun?
A) the
B) on
C) our
A
They have gone to my sister's house late.

Which words are pronouns?
A) they, my
B) have, gone
C) sister's, house
B
They have gone to my sister's house late.

Which words are verbs?
A) they, my
B) have, gone
C) sister's, house
A
They have gone to my sister's house late.

Which words are pronouns?
A) they, my
B) have, gone
C) sister's, house
C
They have gone to my sister's house late.

Which word is an adverb?
A) gone
B) sister's
C) late
A
Soon we will leave for our vacation to Florida.

Which word is an adverb?
A) soon
B) leave
C) our
B
Soon we will leave for our vacation to Florida.

Which word begins a prepositional phrase?
A) we
B) for
C) Florida
C
Soon we will leave for our vacation to Florida.

Which words are nouns?
A) we, our
B) will, leave
C) vacation, Florida
B
Then the football team ran on the field with excitement.

Which is a prepositional phrase?
A) the football team
B) on the field
A
Then the football team ran on the field with excitement.

Which word(s) are prepositions?
A) on, with
B) team, excitement, field
C) ran
B
Then the football team ran on the field with excitement.

Which word(s) are nouns?
A) on, with
B) team, excitement, field
C) ran
C
Then the football team ran on the field with excitement.

Which word(s) are verbs?
A) on, with
B) team, excitement, field
C) ran
A
Then the football team ran on the field with excitement.

Which word is modifying "team"?
A) football
B) ran
C) excitement
E
At the store, a funny man quickly went to the cashier and burped.

Which word(s) are prepositions?
A) the, a, funny
B) and
C) quickly
D) burped
E) at, to
A
At the store, a funny man quickly went to the cashier and burped.

Which word(s) are adjectives?
A) the, a, funny
B) and
C) quickly
D) burped
E) at, to
B
At the store, a funny man quickly went to the cashier and burped.

Which word(s) are conjunctions?
A) the, a, funny
B) and
C) quickly
D) burped
E) at, to
C
At the store, a funny man quickly went to the cashier and burped.

Which word(s) are adverbs?
A) the, a, funny
B) and
C) quickly
D) burped
E) at, to
D
At the store, a funny man quickly went to the cashier and burped.

Which word(s) are verbs?
A) the, a, funny
B) and
C) quickly
D) burped
E) at, to
A
The silly girl giggled at the funny clown.

Which word(s) are modifiers?
A) the, silly, funny
B) girl, clown
C) at
D) giggled
A
The silly girl giggled at the funny clown.

Which word(s) are adjectives?
A) the, silly, funny
B) girl, clown
C) at
D) giggled
B
The silly girl giggled at the funny clown.

Which word(s) are nouns?
A) the, silly, funny
B) girl, clown
C) at
D) giggled
C
The silly girl giggled at the funny clown.

Which word(s) are prepositions?
A) the, silly, funny
B) girl, clown
C) at
D) giggled
D
The silly girl giggled at the funny clown.

Which word(s) are verbs?
A) the, silly, funny
B) girl, clown
C) at
D) giggled
D
The silly girl giggled at the funny clown.

Which word begins a prepositional phrase?
A) the
B) girl
C) giggled
D) at
C
Mass is the total amount of matter in an object.

Which word(s) are articles?
A) mass, amount, matter, object
B) the, an
C) of, in
D) is
A
Mass is the total amount of matter in an object.

Which word(s) are nouns?
A) mass, amount, matter, object
B) the, an
C) of, in
D) is
B
Mass is the total amount of matter in an object.

Which word(s) are adjectives?
A) mass, amount, matter, object
B) the, an
C) of, in
D) is
C
Mass is the total amount of matter in an object.

Which word(s) are prepositions?
A) mass, amount, matter, object
B) the, an
C) of, in
D) is
D
Mass is the total amount of matter in an object.

Which word(s) are verbs?
A) mass, amount, matter, object
B) the, an
C) of, in
D) is
A
Mass is the total amount of matter in an object.

Which is a prepositional phrase?
A) in an object
B) mass is
C) the total amount
B
All of the ____ uniforms were cleaned by her father.

a. girls
b. girl's
c. girls'
B
What type of pronoun is "her"?

The teacher helped her.

a. subject pronoun
b. object pronoun
c. possessive pronoun
B
The ______________ feathers were brown like its body.

a. turkeys
b. turkey's
c. turkeys'
C
Which sentence has a possessive word?

a. The foxes ran by the hen.
b. The girls played football.
c. The boy's team is ready.
C
Bob brought ______ new bicycle to school yesterday.

a. a
b. he
c. his
d. him
B
The coach ordered us to get on the bus immediately.

What part of speech is "ordered"?
a. noun
b. verb
c. adverb
d. adjective
C
Sandra will help her parents look for a new car.

Which is a pronoun from the sentence above?
A. Sandra
B. will
C. her
D. car
C
The businessmen shook hands before the important meeting.
Which part of speech is "shook" in the sentence above?
A. pronoun
B. adjective
C. verb
D. adverb
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