Parts of Speech Formative Assessment - 3rd Grade

What is a prespositional phrase?

• action

• shows where or when

• describes

• a person, place, thing, or idea

What part of speech is the underlined phrase? "The teacher's shoes are bright red."

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• prepositional phrase

What part of speech is the underlined phrase? "Grandma baked chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen."

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• prepositional phrase

What part of speech is the underlined phrase? "After school she quickly searched for her Math homework assignment in her backpack."

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• prepositional phrase

Select all of the verbs from the following choices.

• walk

• his

• ran

• jumped

The old book has been sitting on the shelf for 20 years. "Sitting" is the adjective in the sentence.

• True

• False

The underlined word is a _________:After school she quickly searched for her snowman drawing in her backpack.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• prepositional phrase

Select all the pronouns from the list.

• He

• Ran

• Out

• Her