Parts of Speech Test - Review

Who wrote the quote, "Poetry is all nouns and verbs"?

• Joseph Devlin

• Harper Lee

• Marianne Moore

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Who wrote the quote, "Life is a verb, not a noun"?

• Marianne Moore

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Robert Downey, Jr.

• Harper Lee

Who wrote the quote, “I think we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb.”?

• Robert Downey Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Joseph Devlin

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Who wrote the quote, “All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.”

• Joseph Devlin

• Robert Downey, Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Marianne Moore

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Who wrote the quote, “Attacus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts?"

• Joseph Devlin

• Marianne Moore

• Robert Downey, Jr.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Harper Lee

What is a clause that cannot stand by itself?

• Dependent clause

• Independent clause

What is a clause that can stand by itself?

• Dependent clause

• Independent clause

An action, state, or occurence

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

An example of an abstract noun

• Books

• Brain

• Creativity

• None of the Above

Noun that is not specific; undefined or generic

• Proper Noun

• Compound Noun

• Collective Noun

• Common Noun