Grammar Unit 6

Parts of Speech

100

What part of speech joins words, phrases, or sentences together?

Conjunction

200

What do we call words that are connected by conjunctions?

Compound

300

What are the eight parts of speech?

noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, interjection

400

What part of speech shows emotion?

Interjection

500

Name the seven subject pronouns

I, we, he, she, it, they, you

Nouns

100

What is the simple subject of the following sentence?

Our class sat silently during lunch.

class

200

What is the object of the preposition in the following sentence?

We are spicy nachos during the class movie night. 

night. 

300

What is the complete subject of this sentence:

My little brother ran away from the barking dog.

My little brother

400

What is the object of the preposition:

Earth is the third planet from the sun. 

sun

500

Find the mistake:

We love fall in atlanta, it is crisp and beautiful. 

Atlanta should be capitalized

adjectives

100

Find the adjectives: The slimy snake slithered quietly across the floor. 

 the, slimy

200

Find all the adjectives.

Three blind mice ran quickly to escape the Butcher's wife. 

Three, blind

300

Find all the adjectives:

A black spider ran across the gleaming white floor. 

a, black, gleaming, white

400

Find the possessive pronoun adjective:

My dad plays soccer with me on the weekends. 

My

500

Find all the adjectives:

That cup is very dirty. 

That, dirty

adverbs/ prepositions

100

Find the adverb in the following sentence:

My dog rolled happily in the muddy grass. 

happily

200

Find the prepositions in the sentence:

My little sister runs for president of her class. 

for, of

300

Find the prepositional phrase for the following sentence:

I searched the forest for truffles with my pet pig. 

(for truffles) (with my pet pig)

400

Find the adverbs:

My grandmother cheered loudly as I ran quickly in the 500 meter race. 

loudly, quickly

500

Find the prepositional phrase: Oh no! I shattered my mother's favorite vase into a thousand pieces!

(into a thousand pieces)

Predicates

100

What are the verbs in the sentence: The buzzing bees flew loudly around the trashcan. 

flew.

200

What are the verbs in the following sentence:

I ate brownies and drank milk while I waited for my mother. 

ate, drank, waited.

300

Does this sentence have a simple or a compound predicate?

His brother yelled loudly and cried when he lost the game. 

compound predicate

400

What is the complete predicate of the following sentence: Gina and Martha cooked pasta for the young children. 

cooked pasta for the young children. 

500

What is the simple predicate of the following sentence:

Ouch! A bee stung me!

stung.