Parts of Speech
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| noun | person, place or thing (egg) | ||||
| verb | action or state of being | ||||
| adjective | describes a noun (rotten egg) | ||||
| adverb | describes a verb (noisily), adjective (very rotten), adverb (quite noisily) | ||||
| preposition | indicates where something is in relation to something else (in, over, under, around) | ||||
| pronoun | takes the place of a noun (I, we, she, he, it) | ||||
| proper noun | a specific noun (Australia) capitalised | ||||
| proper adjective | a description formed from a proper noun (French) | ||||
| article | a, an. the | ||||
| Collective noun | Name of a group of things (flock) | ||||
| verbs of being | be, am, is, are, was, were (partial list) | ||||
| exclamation | short outburst (Hey!) | ||||
| conjunction | connects two subjects, verbs, phrases, or clauses (for, and, nor, but, or, yet -- FANBOY) |
Embed Code: If you would like this activity on your web page,
copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
show me how
Created by:
Jessica Ellwood
on 2004-08-02