Parts of Speech
What part of speech refers to a person, place, thing or abstract idea?
Noun
Which part of speech answers questions like:
Whose person, place, or thing?
Which person, place or thing?
How many/much of a person, place or thing?
What kind of person, place, thing, or idea?
Adjective
What is the English word order?
SVO
I went camping with John and (he, him).
Him
The italicized part of the sentence below called the _____________ is the part of the sentence which shows what happened to the snake.
The snake disappeared into the forest.
Predicate
What part of speech connects words or groups of words?
Conjunctions
What part of speech answers the question about who or what we are discussing?
Noun
In a sentence or clause, what part of the sentence tells us who or what is the sentence about?
Subject
(She, Her) and Sara went to the store. Which is the correct pronoun to use?
She
In a sentence or clause, what part of the sentence tells us who or what is the sentence about?
Subject
What part of speech can replace a noun?’
Pronoun
Which part of speech answers questions about what the subject is doing or feeling?
Verb
The subject of a sentence is one of two of these parts of speech: __________ or __________.
Noun or Pronoun
How many adjectives are in the following sentence, including articles?
The red car roared around the sharp corner and hit an old oak tree.
7
The subject of a sentence is one of two of these parts of speech: __________ or __________.
Noun & Pronoun
A ________ shows a physical/mental action or state of being.
Verb
Which part of speech gives information about time, location and abstract relationships and answers questions such as when, where, why and how?
Preposition
What are the direct and indirect objects in this sentence:
She enjoys telling stories to children.
DO: Stories
IO: Children
How many nouns are in this sentence?
One part of the unicorn’s philosophy is to never be afraid to chase the end of the rainbow.
5
What types of clauses are there?
The dedicated and industrious fans decorated the entire stadium due to the team needing support motivation to win the game.
Independent & Dependent
Which part of speech describes the distance/placement/proximity of one word and another word in a sentence?
Preposition
Which part of speech answers questions such as “how” “when” “where” “in what way” or “to what extent” an action is performed?
Adverb
What is the subject complement in this sentence?
My instructor was very kind.
What is the object complement in this sentence?
Paint the desk orange, please. .
SC: Kind
OC: Orange
How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence?
During the month of May we went on a trip with our friends to Canada.
5
Choose if the italicized verbs are transitive or intransitive.
Transitive, Intransitive & Intransitive