Parts of Speech
Allie is going to the beach.
What part of speech is "beach" in this sentence?
Noun
What part of speech is described as a person, place, or thing?
Noun
What part of speech connects words, phrases, and sentences?
Conjunction
Mrs. Deleveaux was eating her lunch with all of her students.
What part of speech is "with" in this sentence?
Preposition
What parts of speech are words like he, she, it, and them?
Pronouns
Jeff is going to the mall.
What part of speech is "to" in this sentence?
Preposition
What part of speech modifies or describes a noun?
Adjective
What parts of speech are words like on, off, up, down, in, and out?
Prepositions
Sam was the winner, and he was happy.
What part of speech is "and" in this sentence?
Conjunction
Young children often insist that they can do it by themselves.
What part of speech is "young" in this sentence?
Adjective
The boy did some tricks with his new bike.
What part of speech is "some" in this sentence?
Adjective
What part of speech is an action word or state of being?
Verb
Yikes! Amanda's homework is scary.
What part of speech is "is" in this sentence?
Verb
Tracy made me a perfect bowl of french onion soup.
What part of speech is "a" in this sentence?
Article
Bethany and Alicia quickly drank their cans of pop.
What part of speech is "quickly" in this sentence?
Adverb
Uh, oh...Mike flipped his motorcycle, and things didn't end very well...
What part of speech is "flipped" in this sentence?
Verb
What part of speech takes the place of a noun?
(For example: Karen could be represented by she or her.)
Pronoun
Joseph laughed heartily when he saw it.
What part of speech is "it" in this sentence?
Pronoun
Susan gave Heather a delicious, dark-chocolate candy bar.
What part of speech is "delicious" in this sentence?
Adjective
What are the 3 articles in English?
a
an
the
Sara carefully checked her work before handing it in.
What part of speech is "carefully" in this sentence?
Adverb
What parts of speech are words like nor, yet, and so?
Conjunctions
An adverb is a word that describes a verb.
How many articles are in this sentence?
Three
Nick loves to go to the mall on Saturdays.
What part of speech is "to go" in this sentence?
Infinitive
The bee flew through the hive.
What part of speech is "through" in this sentence?
Preposition
The girls are waiting at the bus stop.
What part of speech is "at" in this sentence?
Preposition
What parts of speech answer the questions how, when, where, how much, how often?
Adverb
Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Jones, and Mrs. Smith sent holiday cards to their co-workers.
What part of speech is "holiday" in this sentence?
Adjective
Stacy loves singing musical theatre songs.
What part of speech is "singing" in this sentence?
Gerund
The cats love to catch mice!
What part of speech is "to catch" in this sentence?
Infinitive