Parts of Speech

Can you see beyond the hills from the top of the tower?

• noun

• adjective

• noun

• pronoun

• preposition

! Our team has finally scored a touchdown.

• noun

• interjection

• adjective

• verb

• article

The troop had been scattered throughout the woods.

• adjective

• pronoun

• article

• interjection

• noun

Identify the ADJECTIVE(s) in the following sentence: Miss Fountain paces around the room, updating her colorful bulletin boards with gold stars.

• Miss Fountain

• room

• bulletin board

• gold

An adjective describes a(n).......

• imagery

• verb

• noun

• detail word

Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence: "Last year, she head-butted this kid down the stairs because he was looking at her funny."

• kid

• head-butted

• stairs

• looking

Identify the PROPER NOUN(s) in the following sentence: "When Elaine knocked those kids down the stairs, the line outside the Nurse Anna's office stretched halfway to the cafeteria."

• knocked

• stairs

• Elaine

• office

• Nurse Anna

An adverb describes.........

• a person, place, or thing

• a noun

• a detail word

• a verb

Identify the VERB(s) in the following sentence: "Kiana steps forward, struggling to keep a straight face as she reaches for my arm."

• Kiana

• steps

• reaches

• arm

Identify the ADVERB(s) in the following sentence: To catch her attention, James coughed loudly.

• James

• attention

• loudly

• catch