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Test on Parts of Speech
Are you ready to challenge your knowledge? Take the following test, giving the name of the part of speech of the word inside the quotation marks.
1. The ‘brown’ dog quickly ran after the thief.
2. When the team returned, they ‘claimed’ victory.
3. ‘They’ also said they had fun.
4. Police will not say how the ‘criminal’ was captured.
5. James ‘patiently’ waited for the test results.
6. Is there really honor ‘among’ thieves?
7. ‘Dust’ covered everything in the room.
8. One book was ‘particularly’ dusty.
9. She packed both a hat ‘and’ gloves.
10. The football ‘sailed’ between the uprights.
11. ‘I’ will watch them.
12. The child ‘angrily’ stomped away from her mother.
Answers: 1. adjective. 2. verb. 3. pronoun. 4. noun. 5. adverb. 6. preposition. 7. noun. 8. adjective. 9. conjunction. 10. verb. 11. pronoun. 12. adverb.
Are you ready to challenge your knowledge? Take the following test, giving the name of the part of speech of the word inside the quotation marks.
1. The ‘brown’ dog quickly ran after the thief.
2. When the team returned, they ‘claimed’ victory.
3. ‘They’ also said they had fun.
4. Police will not say how the ‘criminal’ was captured.
5. James ‘patiently’ waited for the test results.
6. Is there really honor ‘among’ thieves?
7. ‘Dust’ covered everything in the room.
8. One book was ‘particularly’ dusty.
9. She packed both a hat ‘and’ gloves.
10. The football ‘sailed’ between the uprights.
11. ‘I’ will watch them.
12. The child ‘angrily’ stomped away from her mother.
Answers: 1. adjective. 2. verb. 3. pronoun. 4. noun. 5. adverb. 6. preposition. 7. noun. 8. adjective. 9. conjunction. 10. verb. 11. pronoun. 12. adverb.
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A Misspelled Tail
A little buoy said, “Mother, deer,
May I go out too play?
The son is bright, the heir is clear,
Owe, mother, don’t say neigh!”
“Go fourth, my sun,” the mother said.
The ant said, “Take ewer slay,
Your gneiss knew sled, awl painted read,
Butt dew knot lose your weigh.”
“Ah, know,” he cried, and sought the street
With hart sew full of glee -
The whether changed - and snow and sleet,
And reign, fell steadily.
Threw snowdrifts grate, threw watery pool,
He flue with mite and mane -
Said he, “Though I wood walk by rule,
I am not rite, ‘tis plane.
I’d like to meat sum kindly sole,
For hear gnu dangers weight,
And yonder stairs a treacherous whole -
Two sloe has been my gate.
A peace of bred, a nice hot stake,
I’d chews if I were home,
This crewel fete my hart will brake,
Eye love knot thus to roam.
I’m week and pail, I’ve mist my rode,”
But here a carte came past,
He and his sled were safely toad
Back two his home at last.
by Elizabeth T. Corbett: as published in “St. Nicholas” (1893), volume 20, page 475
A little buoy said, “Mother, deer,
May I go out too play?
The son is bright, the heir is clear,
Owe, mother, don’t say neigh!”
“Go fourth, my sun,” the mother said.
The ant said, “Take ewer slay,
Your gneiss knew sled, awl painted read,
Butt dew knot lose your weigh.”
“Ah, know,” he cried, and sought the street
With hart sew full of glee -
The whether changed - and snow and sleet,
And reign, fell steadily.
Threw snowdrifts grate, threw watery pool,
He flue with mite and mane -
Said he, “Though I wood walk by rule,
I am not rite, ‘tis plane.
I’d like to meat sum kindly sole,
For hear gnu dangers weight,
And yonder stairs a treacherous whole -
Two sloe has been my gate.
A peace of bred, a nice hot stake,
I’d chews if I were home,
This crewel fete my hart will brake,
Eye love knot thus to roam.
I’m week and pail, I’ve mist my rode,”
But here a carte came past,
He and his sled were safely toad
Back two his home at last.
by Elizabeth T. Corbett: as published in “St. Nicholas” (1893), volume 20, page 475
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Grammar in Rhyme
Three little words, you often see,
Are articles A, An, and The.
A Noun is the name of anything,
As School, or Garden, Hoop, or Swing.
Adjectives tell the kind of Noun,
As Great, Small, Pretty, White, or Brown.
Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand,
Her head, His face, Your arm, My hand.
Verbs tell something being done -
To Read, Count, Laugh, Sing, Jump, or Run.
How things are done the Adverbs tell,
As Slowly, Quickly, Ill, or Well.
Conjunctions join the words together -
As men And women, wind Or weather.
The Preposition stands before
A noun, as In or Through a door,
The Interjection shows surprise,
As Oh! how pretty! Ah! how wise!
The Whole are called nine parts of speech,
Which reading, writing, speaking teach.
by Emilie Poulsson
Anne Emilie Poulsson was born on 8 September 1853 in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, United States of America. She became a teacher for the blind at the Perkins School, a writer, a poet, and a translator of written works from Norwegian into English. Anne Emilie Poulsson passed on at 85 years of age on 18 March 1939.
Three little words, you often see,
Are articles A, An, and The.
A Noun is the name of anything,
As School, or Garden, Hoop, or Swing.
Adjectives tell the kind of Noun,
As Great, Small, Pretty, White, or Brown.
Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand,
Her head, His face, Your arm, My hand.
Verbs tell something being done -
To Read, Count, Laugh, Sing, Jump, or Run.
How things are done the Adverbs tell,
As Slowly, Quickly, Ill, or Well.
Conjunctions join the words together -
As men And women, wind Or weather.
The Preposition stands before
A noun, as In or Through a door,
The Interjection shows surprise,
As Oh! how pretty! Ah! how wise!
The Whole are called nine parts of speech,
Which reading, writing, speaking teach.
by Emilie Poulsson
Anne Emilie Poulsson was born on 8 September 1853 in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, United States of America. She became a teacher for the blind at the Perkins School, a writer, a poet, and a translator of written works from Norwegian into English. Anne Emilie Poulsson passed on at 85 years of age on 18 March 1939.
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Parts of a Sentence
A sentence, sentence, sentence
Is complete, complete, complete
When 5 simple rules it meets, meets, meets.
It has a subject, subject,
And a verb, verb, verb.
It makes sense, sense, sense
With every word, word, word.
Add a capital letter and end mark, mark,
Now our sentence has all its parts.
by Author Unknown
A sentence, sentence, sentence
Is complete, complete, complete
When 5 simple rules it meets, meets, meets.
It has a subject, subject,
And a verb, verb, verb.
It makes sense, sense, sense
With every word, word, word.
Add a capital letter and end mark, mark,
Now our sentence has all its parts.
by Author Unknown
