Parts of Speech: Review

1. Nouns (n.) name a person, place, thing,

creature, feeling, quality or idea.

A noun names a person, place or thing,

such as teacher, bridge or wedding ring.

2. Pronouns (pron.) stand in for a noun.

A pronoun take the place of a noun,

such as she for aunt and he for clown.

3. Verbs (v.) show an action or a state of

being.

A verb shows us what is being done,

such as laugh or juggle, dream or run.

4. Adjectives (adj.) tell us more about a

noun.

An adjective tells us about the noun,

such as favourite aunt or funny clown.

5. Adverbs (adv.) tell us more about a

verb.

An adverb tells us about an action,

such as running fast or dreaming often.

6. Prepositions (prep.) link a noun or

pronoun to another word.

A preposition comes before a noun,

such as for my aunt or with the clown.

7. Conjunctions (conj.) join words or

groups of words.

A conjunction joins some words together,

such as hot and cold or beak and feather.

Practice
Match the words in bold to the correct part of speech.
Example: I swam across the pool. ------------------- noun
a. The yellow bus passed by.

Pronoun

b. I need a bath and a meal.

Adjective

c. The earthquake destroyed the city.

Adverb

d. We ran around the oval.

Verb

e. They arrived by train.

Noun

f.

The rain stopped suddenly.

Conjunction

g. I have never seen an elephant.

Preposition.

In each of the following sentences, underline and label the word(s) that correspond to the parts of speech in
brackets. You may use the abbreviations given in the table above.
a. The bird picked up the worm and flew away. [noun(s), conjunction(s)]
b. James took part in the competition and he won the first prize. [pronoun(s), verb(s)]
c. The bus I took to school today was delayed because the driver drove so slowly. [adverb(s), preposition(s)]
d. My dad rarely cooks dinner as it is my mum who does the cooking. [noun(s), adverb(s), conjunction(s)]
e. When you go out the door, turn left at the corridor and walk straight down. [preposition(s), verb(s)]