Nouns
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This part of speech expresses action, shows state of being, or helps another verb.
What is a verb?
This part of speech modifies a noun or a pronoun and answers questions like Which one?, What kind?, or How many?
What is an adjective?
While not a universal rule, many adverbs are easily spotted in a sentence because they end with these two letters.
What is -ly?
This part of speech shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
Identify the noun serving as the subject of this sentence: "Into the crowded arena stepped the champion of the tournament."
What is champion?
Verbs like am, is, are, was, were, have, has, and had are called this when they stand in front of a main verb.
What is a helping verb?
In the sentence "The chopped wood was stacked by the shed," the word chopped is a verb form functioning as this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
This part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, and answers questions like How?, When?, Where?, or To what extent?
What is an adverb?
Identify the complete object of preposition in this sentence: "The papers are under the book."
What is book?
Identify the only noun functioning as a subject in this sentence: "Down the narrow, winding stairs of the old castle crashed the heavy iron shield."
What is shield?
In the sentence "The student is diligent," this specific type of verb connects the subject to a word that describes it rather than showing an action.
What is a linking verb?
Identify all the descriptive adjectives in this sentence: "The two young trees flowed gently in the breeze."
What are two and young?
In the sentence "He will not joining us." this specific word is actually an adverb, not part of the verb phrase.
What is not?
In the phrase "the student's notebook," what part of speech is "student's"?
What is an adjective? (Nouns in the possessive case function as adjectives).
If a noun ends in y preceded by a consonant (like fly or company), you must change the y to this before adding -es to make it plural.
What is i?
In the sentence "The bells rang loudly," the word rang belongs to this specific sub-category of action verbs because it does not direct its action toward an object.
What is an intransitive verb?
The collective name for the specialized adjectives a, an, and the.
What are articles?
Identify the adverb in this sentence: "Please step outside for a moment."
What is outside? It modifies the verb step.
Correct the verb tense error in this past-action sentence: "By the time the bell rang, I already wrote my entire speech."
What is had already written?
A noun that names a quality or idea (like freedom or patience) is called this.
What is an abstract noun?
This specific type of verb always requires a direct object to complete its meaning in a sentence.
What is a transitive verb?
Identify the adjectives in this sentence: "The Sunday sermon lasted an hour, but the Monday morning rush came too quickly."
What are Sunday and Monday
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, but they never modify this part of speech.
What is a noun (or pronoun if it replaces the noun)?
Identify the verb phrase in this sentence: "The assignment should, under normal circumstances, have been turned in yesterday."
What is should have been turned?