Parts of Speech 1
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
This word is a joiner; it connects parts of a sentence
What is a conjunction?
Identify the NOUNS in the following sentence:
Earth is the third planet from the sun.
What are Earth, planet, and sun?
True or false: names of streets should not be capilalized.
What is false?
Joe waited for the train.
Simple, compound, complex.
What is simple?
Replaces a noun
What is a pronoun?
This part of speech is also a connecting word, typically showing direction or duration
What is a preposition?
Identify the ADJECTIVE in the following sentence:
Bianca needed to clean her messy room.
What is messy?
True or false: names of states should not be capitalized.
What is false?
I like coffee, but Emily likes tea.
Simple, compound, complex.
What is compound?
Describes nouns and pronouns
What is an adjective?
Identify the VERB in the following sentence:
Jacob threw the ball to his brother.
What is threw?
Identify the CONJUNCTION in the following sentence.
I tried to hit the nail but hit my thumb instead.
What is but?
What word (or words) should be capitalized in the following sentence:
mark bought new nike shoes this weekend.
Who is Mark?
What is Nike?
Mary and Samantha took the bus.
Simple, compound, complex.
What is simple?
There are two types of this part of speech: action and linking.
What is a verb?
Identify the ADVERB in the following sentence:
The mouse scurried quickly into the hole.
What is quickly?
Identify the ADJECTIVE in the following sentence. Then, identify the word it DESCRIBES.
The green grasshopper was sitting on the flower.
What is green?
What is grasshopper?
What word (or words) should be capitalized in the following sentence:
My brother recently visited the statue of liberty.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Our car broke down, so we arrived late.
Simple, compound, complex.
What is compound?
Describes verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
What is an adverb?
Identify the PREPOSITION in the following sentence:
The cat ran under the bed.
What is under?
Identify the ADVERB in the following sentence. Then, identify the word it DESCRIBES.
He stopped the car abruptly.
What is abruptly?
What is stopped?
What word (or words) should be capitalized in the following sentence:
the address for the white house is 1600 pennsylvania avenue in washington d.c.
What it The?
What is Pennsylvania?
What is Avenue?
What is Washington D.C.?
Although he was wealthy, he was still unhappy.
Simple, compound, complex.
What is complex?