Parts of Speech Worksheets
Nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
Ex: Sara is mainly described by her startling beauty.
Directions: Identify all of the nouns in the sentences below.
1. Paul finally arrived at the blue house, but it was too late.
2. The door was open, the front light was on, and his wife was crying softly.
3. Everyone is still slowly walking home from boring jobs.
4. The sidewalk in front of his blue house pulsed quietly with a slow but steady stream of neighbors.
5. In the twilight, the streetlamp’s dull glow dimly casts surreal highlights on the lawn.
6. The old treadmill and the ten potted plants are carefully arranged on it.
7. Paul usually gives the impression of some agitation when he carefully pushes the machine
back through the door.
8. One of the plants’ pots is definitely an inch and a half out of alignment.
9. Sighing, he carefully nudged it into place and picked up a dead leaf that had fallen when the
pot moved.
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun.
Ex: Sara is mainly described by her startling beauty.
Below is a list of all of the pronouns.
Directions: Identify all of the pronouns in the sentences below.
1. Paul finally arrived at the blue house, but it was too late.
2. The door was open, the front light was on, and his wife was crying softly.
3. Everyone is still slowly walking home from boring jobs.
4. The sidewalk in front of his blue house pulsed quietly with a slow but steady stream of
neighbors.
5. In the twilight, the streetlamp’s dull glow dimly casts surreal highlights on the lawn.
6. The old treadmill and the ten potted plants are carefully arranged on it.
7. Paul usually gives the impression of some agitation when he carefully pushes the machine
back through the door.
8. One of the plants’ pots is definitely an inch and a half out of alignment.
9. Sighing, he carefully nudged it into place and picked up a dead leaf that had fallen when the
pot moved.
Verbs
A verb is a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being.
Ex: Sara is mainly described by her startling beauty.
Directions: Identify all of the verbs in the sentences below.
1. Paul finally arrived at the blue house, but it was too late.
2. The door was open, the front light was on, and his wife was crying softly.
3. Everyone is still slowly walking home from boring jobs.
4. The sidewalk in front of his blue house pulsed quietly with a slow but steady stream of
neighbors.
5. In the twilight, the streetlamp’s dull glow dimly casts surreal highlights on the lawn.
6. The old treadmill and the ten potted plants are carefully arranged on it.
7. Paul usually gives the impression of some agitation when he carefully pushes the machine
back through the door.
8. One of the plants’ pots is definitely an inch and a half out of alignment.
9. Sighing, he carefully nudged it into place and picked up a dead leaf that had fallen when the
pot moved.
Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers that describe other words in a sentence.
Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns. They qualify or specify the meaning of the nouns or pronouns they modify. Adjectives answer the following questions: What kind? Which one? How many? How much?
colorful fish this pond three boats enough time
Some special types of adjectives are the following:
· Articles: a, an, and the
· Nouns used as adjectives: lake breeze
· Proper adjectives: Canadian border
· Predicate adjectives, which follow linking verbs and modify the subject: Fishing is enjoyable.
Ex: Sara is mainly described by her startling beauty.
Directions: Identify all of the adjectives in the sentences below.
1. Paul finally arrived at the blue house, but it was too late.
2. The door was open, the front light was on, and his wife was crying softly.
3. Everyone is still slowly walking home from boring jobs.
4. The sidewalk in front of his blue house pulsed quietly with a slow but steady stream of
neighbors.
5. In the twilight, the streetlamp’s dull glow dimly casts surreal highlights on the lawn.
6. The old treadmill and the ten potted plants are carefully arranged on it.
7. Paul usually gives the impression of some agitation when he carefully pushes the machine
back through the door.
8. One of the plants’ pots is definitely an inch and a half out of alignment.
9. Sighing, he carefully nudged it into place and picked up a dead leaf that had fallen when the
pot moved.
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They answer the following questions about the words they modify: how (strongly, happily); where (down, here); when (early, tomorrow); and to what extent (very, so).
Ex: Sara is mainly described by her startling beauty.
Directions: Identify all of the adverbs in the sentences below.
1. Paul finally arrived at the blue house, but it was too late.
2. The door was open, the front light was on, and his wife was crying softly.
3. Everyone is still slowly walking home from boring jobs.
4. The sidewalk in front of his blue house pulsed quietly with a slow but steady stream of
neighbors.
5. In the twilight, the streetlamp’s dull glow dimly casts surreal highlights on the lawn.
6. The old treadmill and the ten potted plants are carefully arranged on it.
7. Paul usually gives the impression of some agitation when he carefully pushes the machine
back through the door.
8. One of the plants’ pots is definitely an inch and a half out of alignment.
9. Sighing, he carefully nudged it into place and picked up a dead leaf that had fallen when the
pot moved.
Prepositions
A preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. A preposition always introduces a phrase called a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase ends in a noun or a pronoun called the object of the preposition. Any modifiers of the object are also part of the prepaositional phrase.
Bridges connect the two sides of a traveler’s obstacle. (The preposition is of, the object of the preposition is obstacle.)
Ex: Sara is mainly described by her startling beauty.
Directions: Identify all of the prepositions in the sentences below.
1. Paul finally arrived at the blue house, but it was too late.
2. The door was open, the front light was on, and his wife was crying softly.
3. Everyone is still slowly walking home from boring jobs.
4. The sidewalk in front of his blue house pulsed quietly with a slow but steady stream of
neighbors.
5. In the twilight, the streetlamp’s dull glow dimly casts surreal highlights on the lawn.
6. The old treadmill and the ten potted plants are carefully arranged on it.
7. Paul usually gives the impression of some agitation when he carefully pushes the machine
back through the door.
8. One of the plants’ pots is definitely an inch and a half out of alignment.
9. Sighing, he carefully nudged it into place and picked up a dead leaf that had fallen when the
pot moved.
Directions: Identify what part of speech is underlined in the sentences below. Write the part of speech above the underlined word.
Verb Noun
1. Vincent Van Gogh is probably most well known in America for cutting off a large piece of his
own ear with a razor.
Adjective Pronoun
2. He did this in a fit of rage after a violent quarrel with Paul Gauguin with whom he was sharing
a house at the time.
Preposition
3. While trying to establish an artists’ colony in the South of France, Gauguin and Van Gogh
Adjective
lived together in the “Yellow House” for several months.
Pronoun Preposition
4. Their arguments over art escalated to a virulent stage.
Verb Noun
5. Van Gogh also suffered from manic depression.
Adverb
6. Manic depression is a serious mental illness mainly characterized by dramatic mood swings
Preposition
from very high highs to very low lows.
Noun Pronoun
7. Unfortunately, the time of the quarrel with Gauguin coincided with one of Van Gogh’s low
periods.
Pronoun Verb
8. This caused him to be almost overwhelmed with despair.
Verb Preposition
9. Van Gogh wrapped the piece of ear in a sheet of newspaper.
Pronoun Adverb
10. This prompted his brother, Theo, with whom he had a very close relationship, to lovingly
encourage Van Gogh to commit himself to an asylum.
Adverb
11. The flamboyance of the event was unfortunate in many ways, but primarily because it
Noun
became the event most associated with the name of Van Gogh.
Noun Pronoun
12. This event tended to diminish the importance of his work in the eyes of many.