SPaG Samurai Training

Grammar –
Parts of Speech
Learn the Ways of the Samurai
Parts of speech are the grammatical building blocks of sentences; it is how we
categorise the function of words. In English, the main parts of speech are:
• noun – person, place, thing or idea
• pronoun – grammar’s space-saver, replaces a noun, e.g. I, them, it
• adjective – describes a noun, adding colour and detail
• verb – indicates an action
• adverb – describes how, when or where an action occurred
• preposition – reveal position in time and space, e.g. before, at, on
• conjunction – shows how words are connected, e.g. and, but, so
• interjection – strong emotions taking over, e.g. wow, ouch, hey
• determiner – determines quantity, e.g. one, some, a, the, all
Practise the Ways
1. Correct or incorrect...?
a) ‘Correct or incorrect’
includes a conjunction.
b) Love and hate
are nouns.
c) Love and hate can also
be verbs.
d) Adverbs always end -ly.
e) Always is an adverb.
2. Name that part of speech.
a) Adds detail by describing or modifying something.
b) Combines with a subject and object to form a basic
English sentence.
c) Substitute for a noun that has already been clearly
defined.
d) Typically partnered with an exclamation mark.
e) Name suggests it precedes a noun and reveals something
about its placement.

4. Identify the underlined parts of speech

3. Identify the odd one out.
in each sentence.
a) tall obtuse cloth fragrant lonely
a) The cat sat on the mat.
b) vale price steps vast holiday
b) Who do you want to win?
c) jump cliff ski race tumble
c) Woah, that’s rough.
d) fast slow rapidly gently leisure
d) I like holidays; however, I dislike flying.
e) never and because although yet
e) I didn’t mean to be mean.
Have You Mastered It?
1. Correct or incorrect...?
a) ‘Correct or incorrect’
includes a conjunction.
b) Love and hate
are nouns.
c) Love and hate can also
be verbs.
d) Adverbs always end -ly.
e) Always is an adverb.
3. Identify the odd one out.
a) cloth (Noun among adjectives)
b) vast (Adjective among nouns)
c) cliff (Noun alone (all others can
operate as nouns and verbs))
d) leisure (Noun among adverbs)
e) never (Adverb
among conjunctions)
2. Name that part of speech.
a) Adds detail by describing or modifying something. adjective
b) Combines with a subject and object to form
verb
a basic English sentence.
c) Substitute for a noun that has already been
pronoun
clearly defined.
d) Typically partnered with an exclamation mark. interjection
e) Name suggests it precedes a noun and reveals
preposition
something about its placement.
4. Identify the underlined parts of speech
in each sentence.
a) The cat sat on the mat. preposition
b) Who do you want to win? pronoun
c) Woah, that’s rough. interjection
d) I like holidays; however, I
dislike flying. conjunction
e) I didn’t mean to be mean. verb Full marks
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