Definitions
Noun
A person, place, thing, or event
Where is the noun in this sentence? The messy, stinky dog was playing outside in the grass.
Dog
Smart
Adjective
What is a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun
Verb
Words that show action or a state of being
What is the adverb in this sentence? The student was not listening carefully to the teacher.
Carefully
What part of speech does honesty represent in this sentence? Peter's honesty allowed him to stay out of trouble.
Noun
What is an example of a conjunction?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Adjective
A word that describes a noun
What is the verb in this sentence? Yikes! The girl was behind me and I stepped on her toe.
Stepped
Which part of speech does "must have thought" represent in this sentence?
My father must have thought I could swim.
What is an interjection?
Expresses strong emotions. Followed by an exclamation point or a comma depending on the strength of emotion.
Adverb
Tells more about a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Tells how, how many, when
What are the adjectives in this sentence? Susan became more and more tense as she studied for her parts of speech test.
Tense and parts of speech
Identify all the parts of speech in this sentence. The tired student struggled to keep her eyes open during the math test.
Tired (adj), Student (noun), struggled (verb), to keep (verb), eyes (noun), math (adjective), test (noun)
The pronoun in the following sentence: The teacher called your mom yesterday after school.
Your
Conjunction
Connects words and phrases; always followed by a comma
What is the noun in this sentence? Time seemed to go by quickly while she was watching television.
Time
Identify the part of speech of each word in the sentence. Someone usually scolds the cutter and sends him or her to the end of the line.
Someone (noun), usually (adverb), scolds (verb), , cutter (noun), and (conjunction), sends (verb), him (pronoun), or (conjunction), her (pronoun), end (noun), line (noun)
Find the interjection, conjunction, and pronoun in the sentence: Wow! She ran really fast and did not need a break.
Wow (interjection), conjunction (and), pronoun (she)