18 Questions
Which part of speech is a word that names a person, place, concept, or object?
Noun
What are the two categories of nouns?
Common nouns and proper nouns
Which part of speech are words that describe nouns?
Adjectives
Which part of speech describes specific actions?
Verbs
What do adverbs describe?
Adjectives
What do prepositions tell you in a sentence?
The relationships between words
What are the two types of articles?
Definite and indefinite
Which of the following is an example of an interjection?
yippee
What punctuation mark is always used after an interjection?
exclamation mark
Which of the following is NOT an example of a conjunction?
alas
Which part of speech is used to express emotion?
Interjection
Which part of speech connects two different parts of a sentence?
Conjunction
What part of speech is used to describe or provide more information about a noun or subject?
Adjective
What part of speech denotes an action being performed by the subject in a sentence?
Verb
Which part of speech is more set in stone and includes pronouns, conjunctions, articles, and prepositions?
Pronoun
What are the eight parts of speech in the English language?
Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection
What is a word used in place of a noun called?
Pronoun
What part of speech describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb?
Adverb
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