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Review: Parts of
Speech
Identify the part
of speech of the highlighted word in each of the
following sentences:
- The clown chased a dog
around the ring and
then fell flat on her face.
- Verb
-
Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- The geese indolently waddled
across the intersection.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
-
Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
-
Yikes! I'm late for class.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
-
Interjection
- Bruno's shabby
thesaurus tumbled out of the book bag when the bus suddenly
pulled out into traffic.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
-
Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Mr. Frederick angrily stamped
out the fire that the local hooligans had started on his
verandah.
-
Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Later that summer, she
asked herself, "What was I thinking
of?"
- Verb
- Noun
-
Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- She thought that the
twenty zucchini plants would
not be
enough so she planted another ten.
-
Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
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Although she gave hundreds of
zucchini away, the enormous mound left over frightened her.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
-
Conjunction
- Interjection
- Everywhere she went, she
talked about the prolific veggies.
- Verb
- Noun
-
Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- The manager confidently
made his presentation to the board of directors.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
-
Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Frankenstein is
the name of the scientist, not the monster.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Her greatest fear is that
the world will end before she finds a comfortable pair of panty-hose.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
-
Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- That suitcase is hers.
- Verb
- Noun
-
Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
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Everyone in the room cheered when the
announcement was made.
- Verb
- Noun
-
Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- The sun was shining as we set
out for our first winter camping trip.
-
Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
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Small children
often insist that they can do it by themselves.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
-
Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Dust covered
every surface in the locked bedroom.
- Verb
-
Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- The census taker knocked loudly
on all the doors but nobody was home.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
-
Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- They wondered if there
truly was honour among
thieves.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
-
Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Exciting new products and
effective marketing strategies will guarantee the company's
success.
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
-
Conjunction
- Interjection
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