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Practice in Parts of Speech
Practice in Parts of Speech
Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences. n=noun v=verb prp=pronoun adv=adverb adj=adjective prep=preposition conj=conjunction det=determiner
1. Samuel Johnson who published his famous dictionary in 1755 defined a lexicographer as a harmless drudge.
2. The town where I was born, which has a population of 3,000, offers very little in the way of entertainment for teenagers.
3. As director of personnel, you must often make decisions that are painful to you and your employees.
4. The hurricane bearing down on Florida frightened the residents who lived along the coast.
5. Any book printed before 1501 is called an incunabulum, which literally means
swaddling clothes.
6. Having been a police officer in downtown Nashville for thirty years, my neighbor
7. This invitation thwarted his latest plan, to buy up a controlling number of stocks.
8. According to the U.S. Customs Service, smuggling birds from the Caribbean has become a big business.
9. To search for the causes of lower SAT scores would be an exercise in conjecture.
10. Until yesterday, I never realized how awesome a redwood tree could be.
2. The town where I was born, which has a population of 3,000, offers very little in the
3. As director of personnel, you must often make decisions that are painful to you and
your employees.
4. The hurricane bearing down on Florida frightened the residents who lived along the
coast.
5. Any book printed before 1501 is called an incunabulum, which literally means
swaddling clothes.
6. Having been a police officer in downtown Nashville for thirty years, my neighbor
7. This invitation thwarted his latest plan, to buy up a controlling number of stocks.
8. According to the U.S. Customs Service, smuggling birds from the Caribbean has
9. To search for the causes of lower SAT scores would be an exercise in conjecture.
10. Until yesterday, I never realized how awesome a redwood tree could be.