Nouns people places things ideas (love, hate, sympathy, peace) Who? What?

Verbs Action Doing (laugh, whisper, stopping, created, etc.) Linking (is, was, were, am)

Adjectives Describes nouns or pronouns a, an, the What kind? Which one? How many?

Adverbs Modify a verb, adjective, or adverb He ran quickly. He was very fast. He ate very slowly. Where? When? How?

Prepositions Usually a small word that begins a phrase. A preposition phrase must have a direct object (noun). over his head on the table near the computer with anger

Conjunctions Connects individual words or groups of words. tall and beautiful neither this nor that He studied because he needed good grades. andnot only, but also butalthough orbecause norsince beforeso yet whereas either, or neither, nor

Quiz Question #1 Read the sentence below and decide what part of speech each word is. Then click on each word to find out if you are correct. The brown fox jumped quickly over the lazy dog.Thebrownfoxjumpedquicklyoverthe lazydog

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Verbs Action Doing (laugh, whisper, stopping, created, etc.) Linking (is, was, were, am) Click here to go back and try another

Adjectives Describes nouns or pronouns a, an, the What kind? Which one? How many? Click here to go back and try another

Adverbs Modify a verb, adjective, or adverb He ran quickly. He was very fast. He ate very slowly. Where? When? How? Click here to go back and try another

Prepositions Usually a small word that begins a phrase. A preposition phrase must have a direct object (noun). over his head on the table near the computer with anger Click here to go back and try another

Conjunctions Connects individual words or groups of words. tall and beautiful neither this nor that He studied because he needed good grades. andnot only, but also butalthough orbecause norsince beforeso yet whereas either, or neither, nor Click here to go back and try another