Parts of Speech

She will visit her cousins in New York this summer.

• adverb

• conjunction

• noun

• pronoun

Answer explanation

'She' refers to a specific yet unknown person who is going to visit her cousins in New York this summer. A pronoun is used in place of a noun or a noun phrase. She/her, he/him, they/them, I/me, us/we, it/that.

School will begin in the Fall.

• noun

• preposition

• pronoun

• verb

Answer explanation

A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence, and usually shows location, direction, time, or manner. When is school starting? IN the Fall.

Catherine, please read your book silently.

• adjective

• adverb

• preposition

• verb

Answer explanation

'Silently' is an adverb because it describes how Catherine is supposed to read her book. It modifies the verb 'read', specifying the manner of the action. An adverb ADDS to a verb!

French onion soup is on the dinner menu this week.

• adjective

• adverb

• conjunction

• noun

Answer explanation

'French' is used to describe the 'onion soup' (noun), indicating what kind of onion soup it is. This can be both an adjective and a proper noun!

Finally, Josh brought his notebook to class.

• adverb

• conjunction

• noun

• pronoun

Answer explanation

In the question, 'Josh' is a name of a person, and names of people are classified as nouns. Thus, the correct answer is 'noun'. Specifically, 'Josh' is a proper noun.

Anela’s test score was almost perfect.

• adjective

• adverb

• noun

• pronoun

Answer explanation

'Almost' is used to modify the adjective 'perfect', expressing to what extent the test score was perfect. HOW perfect was it? Almost...

Mothers and daughters like to go shopping.

• adverb

• conjunction

• noun

• preposition

Answer explanation

In the sentence, 'and' is used to connect 'Mothers' and 'daughters' in the sentence. Conjunctions are connecting words that are usually in the middle of a sentence, and many times after a comma!

I understand how to do my homework.

• interjection

• verb

• noun

• conjunction

Answer explanation

'Understand' in this sentence is a verb. The act of understanding. Remember, verbs are ACTION or BEING words.

Nya wore a beautiful dress for the International night.

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

• preposition

Answer explanation

'Beautiful' is used to describe the dress that Nya wore. 'Dress' is a noun, so 'beautiful' would be an adjective that it modifies.

Quinn speaks in a calm, quiet voice.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Answer explanation

'Speaks' is an action word (verb). The act of speaking.