8 Parts of Speech Pretest

She was counting the ballots during physics class.

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

A conjunction combines two words with an apostrophe.

Which part of speech expresses a mild or sudden burst of emotion? (Wow!)

Steven is honest.

What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? The did not go running very far.

Several cats ran into Rob's garage.

Hey! that was my seat!

Only verbs and adverbs will be found in verb phrases.

They attended the concert last week.

What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb?

What is the prepositional phrase? I ran around the block ten times today.

The truck driver delivered the package quickly.

Which part of speech connects words or groups of words? (and, but, or)

Which part of speech describes an action or state of being or condition? (throw, run, was...)

What type of noun is always capitalized?

A prepositional phrase always begins with a ___.