Name that Part of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
In the sentence “The dog chased the ball,” these two words are nouns.
What are dog and ball?
In the sentence “The students laughed,” this word is the action being performed.
What is laughed?
In the sentence “The baby slept peacefully,” this word describes how the baby slept.
What is peacefully?
In the sentence “I wanted pizza and tacos,” this word connects two ideas.
What is and?
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, such as he, she, it, they, or we.
What is a pronoun?
This type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing and is usually capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
In the sentence “The red car sped down the road,” this word describes the car.
What is red?
This part of speech can describe a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
In the sentence “Wow! That was an amazing game,” this word expresses excitement.
What is Wow?
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
In the sentence “Maria forgot her backpack,” this word is the pronoun.
What is her?
In the sentence “The athlete sprinted across the field,” this word is the action verb.
What is sprinted?
In the sentence “The book is under the desk,” this word shows the relationship between the book and the desk.
What is under?
In the sentence “The sunset was beautiful,” this word describes the sunset.
What is beautiful?
This part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
In the sentence “They went to the football game,” this word is a personal pronoun.
What is they?
In the sentence “Sarah studied and completed her homework,” these two words are verbs.
What are studied and completed?
In the sentence “The students walked through the hallway,” these words make up the prepositional phrase.
What is through the hallway?
In the sentence “The ball rolled between the chairs,” this word shows the relationship between the ball and the chairs.
What is between?
This part of speech expresses strong emotion and can be followed by an exclamation point, such as Wow! or Ouch!
What is an interjection?
In the sentence “He told them that they should bring their books,” these four words are pronouns.
What are he, them, they, and their?
In the sentence “The exhausted runner collapsed after the race,” this adjective describes the noun runner.
What is exhausted?
In the sentence “The extremely nervous student spoke quietly,” these two words are adverbs.
What are extremely and quietly?
In the sentence “The extremely talented player quickly ran toward his teammates, but they cheered loudly,” this word is the conjunction connecting two ideas.
What is but?