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Comprehensive Parts of Speech Test
Comprehensive Parts of Speech Test
1. In the sentence "Billy ate his friend Jack. " what is the verb?
A) Billy
B) ate
C) friend
D) Jack
2. In the sentence " Jerille is running to the store." which words are verbs ?
A) store
B) Jerille
C) to
D) is running
3. In the sentence "Kansas doen't have many people." which words are nouns ?
A) doesn't
B) have
C) Kansas people
D) many
4. In the sentence "When we go to the movies, we eat popcorn." what are the verbs?
A) movies we
B) popcorn
C) go eat
D) to when
5. In the sentence "I love eating spicy food at Mexican restaurants." what are the adjectives ?
A) restaurants eating
B) Mexican spicy
C) Mexican food
D) I love
6. In the sentence "Run home quickly and quietly tell Mom that I am sick." what are the averbs?
A) quietly hurt
B) quickly home
C) quickly quietly
D) hurt run
7. In the sentence "Lunch at school is never very good." what is the verb?
A) good
B) very
C) is
D) never
8. In the sentence "I was at the store" what is the verb?
A) at
B) was
C) the
D) store
9. In the sentence "Can we eat large pieces of pie? what is the adjective ?
A) pie
B) can
C) pieces
D) large
10. In the sentence "The car goes really fast when it flies over the people." what is the adjective ?
A) fast
B) people
C) flies
D) goes
II
What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb and answers when? where? how? and
to what extent?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Noun
2. What part of speech connects words or groups of words? Examples are for, and, nor, but, or,
yet, and so?
A.
Preposition
B.
Adverb
C.
Interjection
D.
E.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Conjunction
Pronoun
3. What part of speech substitutes for a noun or pronoun? Examples are we, they him, I, you, me,
she...
Pronoun
Verb
Conjunction
Noun
Interjection
4. What part of speech describes a noun or pronoun and answers the questions which one(s)?
how many/much? or what kind(s)
A.
Verb
B.
Adverb
C.
Adjective
D.
Preposition
E.Noun
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Which part of speech describes the distance/placement/proximity of one word and another
word in a sentence? Examples are on, to, behind, with...
Adverb
Preposition
Interjection
Noun
Conjunction
6. What part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea? Examples are house, jury,
determination.
A.
Noun
B.
Pronoun
C.
Adjective
D.
Interjection
E. Conjunction
III
Identify which part of speech are the underlined words.
1. They attended the concert last weekend.____________________
2. Several cats ran into Robs garage.________________________
3. The truck driver delivered the package quickly._____________
4. Fast runners won all the awards at the track meet.___________
5. My friend and I walked home after school.__________________
6. I wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch.________
7. She was counting the ballots during civics class._____________