Identifying Parts of Speech Flashcards
Identify the part of speech of the words.
The movers unloaded the sofa and put it in the living room.
a. movers
b. unloaded
c. and
d. it
e. in
a. noun
b. verb
c. conjunction
d. pronoun
e. preposition
Identify the part of speech of the words.
For me, no spot is better than the beach.
a. me
b. spot
c. better
a. pronoun
b. noun
c. adjective
Identify the part of speech of the words.
Before they leave the camp, the guides teach the hikers how to identify poison ivy and warn them to avoid it.
a. they
b. leave
c. teach
d. hikers
e. and
a. pronoun
b. verb
c. verb
d. noun
e. conjunction
Identify the part of speech of the word.
He is famous chiefly for the many dictionaries that have been named after him, most of which he had nothing at all to do with!
a. after
a. preposition
Identify the part of speech of the words.
One of the most interesting grammarians of the present century is the Harvard scholar George Lyman Kittredge.
a. one
b. most
a. pronoun
b. adverb
Identify the part of speech of the word.
What grammarian today would dare to illustrate the nature of the sentence as Kittredge did on the first page of his grammar book?
a. as
a. conjunction
Identify the part of speech of the words.
On hot, sunny days, when the sand burns my feet, I am always careful about putting on sunscreen.
a. hot
b. burns
c. careful
d. about
e. sunscreen
a. adjective
b. verb
c. adjective
d. preposition
e. noun
