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Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech. “Bucket of DOOM” Test Review. Rules of the Game. Each team will have a chance to answer its own question. If the answer is incorrect, there is no opportunity to earn points. The correct answer will be given to review. Rules of the Game.

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Parts of Speech

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  1. Parts of Speech “Bucket of DOOM” Test Review

  2. Rules of the Game • Each team will have a chance to answer its own question. • If the answer is incorrect, there is no opportunity to earn points. The correct answer will be given to review.

  3. Rules of the Game • When correct answer is given, team will pull a token from one of two buckets: “point bucket” or “bucket of doom” • “Point bucket” contains blue and red chips: • Blue chips: 100 points • Red chips: 50 points • “Bucket of doom” contains green and black chips • Green chips: 300 points • Black chips: LOSE EVERYTHING! RETURN ALL CHIPS! * Team w/ highest amount of tokens wins 3 bonus points on test!

  4. Question # 1 What part of speech names a person, place, or thing?

  5. Answer NOUNS

  6. Question # 2 What type of noun is the following word? “raincoat”

  7. Answer Compound Noun

  8. Question # 3 What category do the following pronouns fall into? Anyone, somebody, everything, few, many

  9. Answer Indefinite Pronouns

  10. Question # 4 What part of speech modifies a noun?

  11. Answer Adjective

  12. Question # 5 The following words are a special type of adjective. What are they called? the a an

  13. Answer Articles

  14. Question # 6 What part of speech stands in the place of a specific noun?

  15. Answer Pronoun

  16. Question # 7 There are two types of action verbs. What are they?

  17. Answer Mental Action Verbs Physical Action Verbs

  18. Question # 8 What part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb?

  19. Answer Adverbs

  20. Question # 9 True or False – Adverbs always end in “ly”

  21. Answer • False • Some examples include: • yesterday, here, worse

  22. Question # 10 What part of speech expresses an action or state of being?

  23. Answer Verbs

  24. Question # 11 What part of speech shows the relationship between a noun and its objects?

  25. Answer Prepositions

  26. Question # 12 What type of verb accompanies an action verb or linking verb, forming a phrase, to show the verb’s tense?

  27. Answer Helping Verb

  28. Question # 13 What part of speech joins words, clauses, and phrases?

  29. Answer Conjunctions

  30. Question # 14 What type of conjunction joins a clause that cannot stand alone without the rest of the sentence?

  31. Answer Subordinate Conjunction

  32. Question # 15 What type of conjunctions are the following? Neither, nor Either, or Not only, but also

  33. Answer Correlative Conjunctions

  34. Question # 16 What part of speech is a word or short phrase that gains attention or adds emphasis?

  35. Answer Interjection

  36. Question # 17 • The birdhouse was in the tree where the cardinals could lay their eggs. How many nouns are in the following sentence?

  37. Answer • FOUR • The birdhouse was in the tree where the cardinals could lay their eggs.

  38. Question # 18 Identify the prepositions in the following sentence: Beyond the valley the mountains were black against the sky.

  39. Answer • Beyond the valley the mountains were black against the sky.

  40. Question # 20 Identify the following verb as transitive or intransitive: Then everyone climbedinto a tube in the waterto float downstream while basking in the sun.

  41. Answer Intransitive

  42. Question # 21 What part of speech is the underlined word? I forgot to study for my Parts of Speech test today! Oops!

  43. Answer Interjection

  44. Question # 22 Identify the adverb in the following sentence: A rather funny clown was juggling oranges.

  45. Answer A rather funny clown was juggling oranges. “Rather” modifies the adjective “funny” and answers the question “how funny?” …. “Rather funny.”

  46. Question # 23 Identify the adjective(s) in the following sentence: Several friends of mine are going to the concert.

  47. Answer Several friends of mine are going to the concert.

  48. Question # 24 Identify the adverb in the following sentence: We will play a double-header tomorrow.

  49. Answer We will play a double-header tomorrow. “Tomorrow” answers the question “when?”

  50. Question # 25 Choose the correct pronoun: Anybody can learn to set up (his, their) own tent.

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