Parts of Speech Identification

The first day of school can be tough no matter who you are.

• noun

• adjective

• preposition

• adverb

For Jordy, the Child Ninja, the first day was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad, day.

• noun

• pronoun

• conjunction

• preposition

To start things off, he woke up on the ceiling, which always makes his neck hurt.

• adjective

• pronoun

• adverb

• noun

The heater was on, and since heat rises, he was sweating like a baked ham.

• adverb

• preposition

• verb

• conjunction

Match the words from the sentence below to their correct part of speech.

It's been said that the impact from a giant asteroid comet might have killed off the dinosaurs.

• dinosaurs

• contraction

• from

• article

• giant

• preposition

• the

• plural noun

• it's

• adjective

Place the part of speech in the correct place.

(a)   adjective

(b)   noun

(c)   verb

(d)   noun

noun (e)  

• scarce

• organism

• summarize

• conflict

• emphasize

What is the part of speech of the word 'love'? (a)  

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Preposition

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1

Match the following parts of speech to their appropriate definition.

• Verb

• Describes nouns

• Adjective

• Describes verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

• Adverb

• Physical or mental action

• Noun

• Person, place, thing, or idea

Please label the top 4 parts of speech.

c

d

b

a

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Adverb

Match Label the part of speech for each underlined word. Hey, you forgot your Nike backpack on your desk.

• preposition

• Hey

• adjective

• on

• interjection

• Nike

• verb

• forgot