Parts of Speech Review (MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE YOU ARE ALLOWED TO RETAKE THE QUIZ)!

Answer each of the following in complete sentences.

  1. What is the definition of a noun?
  2. What is the definition of a verb?
  3. What is the definition of an adjective?
  4. What is the definition of an adverb?
  5. What is the definition of a pronoun?
  6. What is the definition of a conjunction?
  7. What does a prepositional phrase add?
  8. A prepositional phrase starts with a ______and ends with a ______or ______.
  9. How do we cite evidence? If you were going to use a sentence from The Giver by Lois Lowry that was located on page 52, how would you cite that?
  10. Write what each letter stands for (coordinating conjunctions)

F

A

N

B

O

Y

S

For each of the following sentences, tell me what part of speech is underlined.

  1. It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
  2. No. Wrong word, Jonas thought.
  3. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
  4. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice.
  5. He had seen it both times.
  6. Squinting toward the sky, he had seen the sleek jet, almost a bur at its high speed, go past, and a second later heard the blast of sound that followed.
  7. Then one more time, a moment later, from the opposite direction, the same plane.
  8. At first, he had only been fascinated.
  9. He had never seen aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community.
  10. Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bikes to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community.
  11. Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bikes to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community.
  12. Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bikes to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community.
  13. Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bikes to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community.