Parts of Speech

What part of speech represents a person, place, thing, or idea?

What kind of articles are the words a and an? (they indicate something not specific)

A verb that describes physical or mental action is called what type of verb?

Examples of this part of speech are house, jury, determination, grit.

What kind of adjective is the word "American" in the following sentence? The boy is American.

What type of noun is always capitalized? (Bob, California, France...)

What kind of article is the? (it indicates something specific)

What are the three questions that adjectives can answer?

What are the four questions that adverbs can answer?

What part of speech is in bold in the following sentence? The kid went inside to eat dinner.

Prepositional phrases always begin with a _____________ and end with noun or pronoun.

What type of noun cannot be perceived by the senses? (love, ambition, liberty...)

If one can switch this word with "because," it's a conjunction (otherwise, it's a preposition).

Interjections that express a sudden burst of emotion are followed by what kind of punctuation?

Which part of speech expresses a mild or sudden burst of emotion? Examples: "Wow!" or "Ouch!"

Examples of this part of speech include words like on, to, behind, with, in, around.

What type of noun can be perceived by the five senses? (table, bird, school, beach...)

(She, Her) and Sara went to the store. Which is the correct pronoun to use?

What's the prepositional phrase in the following? I ran around the block ten times today.

What are the words a, an, and the called?

What part of speech connects words/ groups of words? Examples: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

What describes the distance/placement/proximity of one word to another word in a sentence?

How many prepositional phrases? During the month of May I went on a trip with my friend to NYC.

What part of speech answers the questions which one(s)? how many/much? or what kind(s)?

The verbs seems, is, was, and had, when used alone, are what kind of verbs?

What word is being described by the adverb inside? A warm fire beckoned the weary man inside.

What part of speech substitutes for a noun or pronoun? Examples: we, they, him, I, you, me, she

Conjunctions used in pairs are what kind of conjunctions? (both/and; either/or; neither/nor)

What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb and answers when? where? how?

What part of speech describes a noun or pronoun?

Mild interjections are followed by what kind of punctuation?

What type of pronouns are I, we, she, they, him, and us? They refer to "people."

If it can be replaced with except, it's a preposition; if not, it's a coordinating conjunction.