Example Test: Part of Speech

What is an adverb?

• a word that connects words, phrases, and clauses

• a word that modifies verbs and some other parts of speech

• a word that modifies nouns and pronouns

• a word that is a person, place, thing, or idea.

What do pronouns replace?

• Prepositions

• Verbs

• Nouns and noun phrases

• Adjectives

What part of Speech expresses an action or a state of being?

• adverb

• interjection

• preposition

• verb

What is an adjective?

• a word that describes nouns and phrases

• an interrupting word

• a word that is a person, place, thing or idea

• a word that connects words, phrases and clauses

What part of Speech would you use to describe where, when, or the directions something is going?

• conjunction

• preposition

• interjection

• pronoun

Read the sentence, and choose the noun.

The scruffy dog barked loudly.

• barked

• loudly

• dog

• cruffy

Read the sentence, and choose the conjunction.

Hey, I got a bicycle and a scooter for my birthday.

• hey

• got

• bicycle

• and

Read the sentence. How would you rewrite it using a pronoun?

I walked up the hill to wait for Lily.

• I walked up the hill to wait for her.

• I walked down the hill to wait for Leslie.

• I climbed up the hill to wait for her.

• I walked quickly up the hill to wait for her.

Choose the sentence in which the verb is capitalized.

• AISHA suddenly dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Aisha SUDDENLY dropped her delicious ice cream cone.

• Aisha suddenly DROPPED her delicious ice cream cone.

• Aisha suddenly dropped her DELICIOUS ice cream cone.

Read the sentence. Choose an adjective you could add to describe the moon.

Finn gazed up at the moon and the stars.

• his

• bright

• counted

• sleepily