Parts of Speech (nouns, verbs, adj., adv.)

What part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea?

• verb

• adjective

• noun

• adverb

Identify a noun in the following sentence. There were many students in our class today.

• were

• many

• students

• our

What part of speech is an action or state of being?

• verb

• noun

• adjective

• adverb

Identify the verb in the sentence. The students smiled at the bus driver.

• students

• smiled

• bus

• driver

What part of speech describes (modifies) a noun or pronoun?

• noun

• adverb

• verb

• adjective

Identify the adjective in the sentence. Three students were in line in the cafeteria.

• three

• students

• line

• were

What part of speech modifies a verb?

• noun

• verb

• adverb

• adjective

Identify the adverb in the sentence. We quickly ran to our friends to say hello.

• quickly

• ran

• friends

• hello

A ___________ is a person, place thing, or idea.

A(n) ___________ describes a noun or a pronoun.