Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Quiz for grade 8s

What is a Noun?

the name of a person, place, thing, idea, or state of being.

What are the 4 things nouns can be?

A noun can be proper or common, and concrete or abstract.

What is a Adjective?

describes or modifies a noun.

What questions do adjectives answer?

Adjectives answer the questions what kind? how many? how much? which one? or which ones?

What are articles?

this is a type of adjective

How many articles are there?

There are three of these articles: a, an, the.

What are they signals for?

They are also signals that a noun will follow.

What is a pronoun?

is a word used in the place of a noun.

What is a verb?

is a word, or group of words that express action

What types of verbs are there?

There are verbs that express action, and there are verbs that express mental action.

What is a linking verb?

They do not show action. They help to make a statement make sense.

What are 16 common linking verbs?

am were become taste

is being appear grow

are been remain look

was seem smell fee

What 7 other words can also be linking verbs?

Depending on how they are used in a sentence, appear, remain, smell, taste, grow, look, and feel may also be action verbs.

What is an adverb?

is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective or

another adverb.

What do questions do adverbs answer?

Adverbs answer the question how? when? where? how much? or how

often?

What are 18 common adverbs?

How? When? Where? How much?

easily soon here very

safely now there seldom

suddenly already outside too

quickly often

What is a preposition?

s a word used to show the relationship of a

noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence.

What does a preposition do to a group of words?

A preposition introduces a group of words called a prepositional

phrase.

What is a conjunction?

s a word which joins words or groups of

words

What is a interjection?

is a word which expresses strong emotion

and is not related grammatically to other words in a sentence.