Parts of Speech Definitions + Practice

A word that connects words or groups of words.

A special kind of adjective (a, an, the).

A word that expresses strong feeling (usually followed by an exclamation mark).

What is the verb in this sentence? It caused a lot of damage.

What is the noun in this sentence? The cat played in the yard.

What is the conjunction in this sentence? The gray and black horse galloped across the field.

What is the pronoun in this sentence? They went to the game.

A word that expresses action or a state of being.

What is the article in this sentence? The gray and black horse galloped across the field.

What is the interjection in this sentence? Ouch! Why did you do that?

A word that takes the place of a noun.

What is the preposition in this sentence? The gray horse galloped across the field.

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence.

What is the adjective in this sentence? The gray horse galloped across the field.

A word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.