Parts of Speech & Sentence Structure

Person, Place, Thing, or Idea...

• Verb

• Noun

• Preposition

• Conjunction

_____conveys action, occurance, or state of being.

• Noun

• Pronoun

• Verb

• Preposition

There is only one type of verb.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

There are three types of verbs: action, helping, and linking.

A ____ is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. For example, before, after, under, and toward are all common examples of ____ that you might see in someone's writing.

• Noun

• Action Verb

• Preposition

• Conjunction

A ____is a word that is used to connect clauses and sentences together.

• Preposition

• Conjunction

• Linking Verb

• Helping Verb

How many types of conjunctions are there?

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

Answer explanation

There are THREE types of conjunctions! They are: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative.

How many parts of speech are there?

• Four

• Five

• Eight

• Nine

An ____ is a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning

• Conjunction

• Interjection

• Pronoun

• Adverb

____ are words used to change, describe, or add more information about a verb in a sentence.

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Prepositions

• Nouns

Answer explanation

Fun Fact! An adverb can also modify an adjective or even other adverbs with the purpose of making the meaning of the sentence clearer.

An ____ is a part of speech that can be used to describe or provide more information about a noun or pronoun that acts as the subject in a sentence. ____ are found after the verb or before the noun it modifies.

• Adjective(s)

• Adverb(s)