PRATICE TEST (Parts of Speech)

1. What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb and

answers when? where? how? and to what extent?

A. Verb

B. Adjective

C. Adverb

D. Preposition

E. 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. Conjunction

E. Pronoun

3. What part of speech substitutes for a noun or pronoun? Examples

are we, they him, I, you, me, she...
Discuss

A.

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
5. Which part of speech expresses a mild or sudden burst of emotion?
Examples are wow! or no,.

A. Adverb

B. Noun

C. Interjection

D. Preposition

E. Adjective

6. Which part of speech describes the distance/placement/proximity of one

word and another word in a sentence? Examples are on, to, behind, with...

A. Adverb

B. Preposition

C. Interjection

D. Noun

E. Conjunction

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

are house, jury, determination.
Discuss

A.

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

9. What type of personal pronouns are I, we, she, he and they? They usually
belong in the front of a sentence.

10. What type of pronouns are me, them her, him, us? They usually belong
in the predicate.
Discuss
11. The verbs seems, is, was and had when used alone are what kind of
verbs?

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

13. A noun that names a group of things is called what type of noun? It
rarely ends in "s."

14. What type of noun is always capitalized? (John, Arizona, France...)

Discuss

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

16. What type of noun is made up of two or more words? (policeman,

father-in-law, real estate...)

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

18. The adjectives a, an, and the are called what kind of adjectives?
Discuss

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

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

21. What is the name of the word that the pronoun stands for or refers to in
a sentence? (Mary took her friend with her. "Mary" is the
_____________" for the pronouns "her".
Discuss
 22. Which word must be able to be switched with the word "because" for it
to be a conjunction? (otherwise, it's a preposition)
Discuss

A. But

B. Or

C. Because

D. For

E. Yet

23. Conjunctions used in pairs are called what kind of conjunctions?

(both...and/either...or/neither...nor...) EX: I want both pizza and hot dogs.

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

A.She

B. Her

25. I went camping with John and (he, him).

A. Him

B. He

26. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence: They did not go running
very far.

27. What kind of adjective is the word "American" in the following sentence?
The soldiers saluted the American flag.

28. What word is being described by the adverb "inside" in the following
sentence?A warm fire beckoned the weary travelers inside.

29. Prepositional phrases always begin with a _____________ and ends with
noun or pronoun.
30. Which word is only a preposition when it can be substituted with the
word "except," otherwise it is a coordinating conjunction?

31. What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence?I ran around
the block ten times today.

32. The phrases "according to, in addition to, and because of are examples
of what kind of prepositions?
Discuss

33. What part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence.
Adverb or Preposition? The boys went inside to eat dinner.
Discuss

A. Adverb

B. Preposition

34. Is the following sentence written actively or passively? Many of the

math problems were written down incorrectly by our teacher.

A. Passive

B. Active

35. Mild interjections are followed by what kind of punctuation?

A. Exclamation point

B. Semicolon

C. Comma

D. Period

E. Colon
36. Interjections that express a sudden burst of emotion are followed by what
kind of punctuation?

A. Comma

B. Semicolon

C. Colon

D. Exclamation point

E. Period

37. How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence?During the
month of May we went on a trip with our friends to Canada.

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

E. 6

38. What are the four questions that adverbs can answer?

A. Who? when? where? why?

B. When? where? how? why?

C. When? where? to what extent/degree? what?

D. To what extent/degree? when? where? how?

E. When? where? to what extent/degree? why?

39. What are the three questions that adjectives can answer?

A. Who? what? when? where?

B. Who? what kind? to what extent/degree?

C. Which one? what kind? to what extent/degree

D. Which one? what kind? how many?

 E. Which one? how many? why?

40. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence?I will not be going
sledding because it's too cold.

41. What is the infinitive verb phrase in the following sentence?I want to
play baseball today.

42. How many adjectives are in the following sentence, including

articles?The red car roared around the sharp corner and hit an old oak
tree.
Discuss

A. 4

B.5

C. 6

D. 7

E. 8

43. The noun "mob" is a common noun, a concrete noun, and.......what is the
last kind?