Parts of Speech

Which part of speech expresses action or a state of being?

• adverb

• interjection

• preposition

• verb

What part of speech is library?

The school library is full of new books.

• noun

• adjective

• pronoun

• verb

What do pronouns replace?

• prepositions

• verbs

• nouns

• adjectives

What is an adjective?

• A word that describes nouns and pronouns

• An interrupting word

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

• A word that connects phrases and clauses 

Read the sentence, and choose the noun. 
The scruffy dog barked loudly. 

• barked

• loudly

• dog

• scruffy

Read the sentence. Choose an adjective you could use to describe the moon. 
Finn gazed up at the moon and stars. 

• his

• bright

• counted

• sleepily

What part of speech is the?

We went to the store quickly after dark.

• adverb

• article

• interjection

• verb

What part of speech is her?

Sally slept all night with her stuffed animal in the bed.

• adverb

• preposition

• pronoun

• conjunction

What is the adverb in this sentence?

Sally read that book quickly so she checked out another one.

• another

• read

• quickly

• so

What is the preposition in the sentence?

My favorite series in the library is probably the Theodore Boone series.

• favorite

• probably

• in

• my