Noun
Identify the noun(s) in the following sentence:
The horse galloped quickly.
What is horse?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence:
I am now a vegetarian.
What is am?
Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
Lorena slowly put away the dishes.
What is slowly?
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
Harry Potter has gigantic words in it.
What is gigantic?
This pronoun means that something belongs to "it."
What is its?
*It's is incorrect
Identify the interjection(s) in the following sentence:
Pow! Superman crashed through the glass!
What is pow?
Identify the conjunction(s) in the following sentence:
Should we watch Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune?
What is or?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
The sleepy baby slept under his blanket.
What is under his blanket?
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Identify the noun(s) in the following sentence:
The tissue box fell on the floor.
What are (tissue) box and floor?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence:
The swimming fish escaped the fisherman.
What is escaped?
Adverbs describe this/these part(s) of speech.
What are verbs and adjectives?
Adjectives describe this/these part(s) of speech.
What is a noun?
Identify the pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
I never, in a million years, would ever think to steal anything from you.
What are I and you?
Identify the interjection(s) in the following sentence:
He was hit by a car? Ouch!
What is ouch?
Identify the conjunction(s) in the following sentence:
Jackie's favorite foods are dumplings, sushi, and tacos.
What is and?
Identify the object of the preposition in the following sentence:
The nanny put the biscuits in the oven.
What is oven?
*note: the prepositional phrase is "in the oven"
This part of speech interrupts the flow of a sentence and can be omitted without changing the meaning of a sentence.
What is an interjection?
Identify the noun(s) in the following sentence:
Sarah rode her bike to school.
What are Sarah, bike, and school?
This type of verb is underlined in the following sentence:
The music blasted from the speakers.
What is an action verb?
Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
The very bright star was seen by the astronaut.
What is very?
*Remember that adverbs not only modify verbs, but also adjectives.
This is a subcategory of adjectives which includes "a," "an," and "the."
What are articles?
These are ALL of the pronouns that refer to more than one person.
What are they, them, their, theirs, we, us, our, and ours?
It's okay if you forgot "theirs" and "ours"
Identify the interjection(s) in the following sentence:
We never, and I mean never, should, uh, steal.
What is uh?
Identify the conjunction(s) in the following sentence:
Either walk or jog during PE.
What are either and or?
Identify the preposition(s) in the following sentence:
The squirrel climbed up the tree.
What is up?
This part of speech often ends with -ly and describes the way an action is performed.
What is an adverb?
Identify the noun(s) in the following sentence:
Larry drew his dad a picture for Father's Day.
What are Larry, dad, picture, and Father's Day?
This type of verb is underlined in the following sentence:
Miss Orban says that all of her students are incredibly talented and smart.
What is a linking verb?
Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
Students might work slowly to ensure that they do their work well.
What are might, slowly and well?
*Remember that well is an adverb, and good is an adjective
This type of article is underlined in the following sentence:
The strong bag held all of the garbage.
What is definite article?
*Remember, our indefinite articles are "a" and "an."
Pronouns can also function as these other parts of speech.
What are nouns and adjectives?
Identify the interjection(s) in the following sentence:
Mrs. Shea, this table, wow, looks amazing!
What is wow?
This type of conjunction is underlined in the following sentence:
Are the Packers or the Patriots the greatest football team of all time?
What is coordinating?
Identify the preposition(s) in the following sentence:
Their uncle lives down the street on the right.
What are down and on?
This part of speech can connect two independent clauses with the help of a comma; it can also help out when you have a list of items.
What is a conjunction?
Identify the noun(s) in the following sentence:
Francesco ran around the mall, looked for an iPod, but stumbled upon a CD and cassette tape.
What are Francesco, mall, iPod, CD, and (cassette) tape?
This type of verb is underlined in the following sentence:
Mr. Smith was running to catch his flight.
What is a helping verb?
Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
The beach volleyball players swiftly hit the ball around.
What are swiftly and around?
Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence:
The amazing principal sincerely helped her students.
What are the, amazing, and her?
This is the noun which a pronoun replaces in the sentence.
What is an antecedent?
The feeling that is shown through use of interjections in the following sentence:
I, uh, am still thinking, err, about how, um, to solve the, oof, problem.
What is uncertainty or questioning?
This type of conjunction is underlined in the following sentence:
Both dogs and cats make wonderful pets.
What is correlative?
Identify the preposition(s) in the following sentence:
Go play outside, around the corner.
What is around?
*note: "outside" is an adverb here
This part of speech is always part of a phrase... if it is not within a phrase, it becomes an adverb.
What is a preposition?