Parts of Speech Workshop
Parts of Speech Workshop
Parts of Speech Workshop
Thing, person, place, animal, idea describes a noun example words The, a, an pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, interesting (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really to, at, after, on and, but, when example sentences This is a nice house. Give me the book! This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. My dog is big. I like big dogs.
Adjective
Verb
shows action or state describes a verb, adjective or adverb links a noun to another word joins clauses or sentences or words replaces a noun
EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com. My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. We went to school on Monday. I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
Adverb
Preposition Conjunction
Pronoun
* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. Here, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:
Wh-question words may be treated as another part of speech. Exclamation expressions or interjections may be treated as a separate part of speech.
Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech: noun John verb works. noun animals. noun verb John is noun Animals verb working. verb like adjective kind noun people.
verb Stop!
pronoun She
verb loves
noun Tara
verb
noun
adverb well.
noun Tara
noun English.
pronoun She
station quickly.
adj. big
noun snakes
conjunction but
pron. I
verb hate
pron. them.
likes
Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech: conj. and adj. young noun John verb walk prep. to noun school adverb slowly.
PRACTICE A. Every word has a job, or part of speech. Choose and UNDERLINE the correct word for its part of speech. Example: 1. Choose the verb......................apple ate on
2. Choose the noun.....................death 3. Choose the interjection.............hey 4. Choose the conjunction............the 5. Choose the adjective...............Gandalf 6. Choose the pronoun................thee 7. Choose the adverb..................broke 8. Choose the preposition............without 9. Choose the verb.....................chair 10. Choose the noun....................sword 11. Choose the interjection............and 12. Choose the conjunction............was 13. Choose the adjective...............wow 14. Choose the pronoun.................you 15. Choose the adverb................dwarf
deadly Bilbo so
tomorrow travel Hobbit silently wow because hi hello mountain into quest rough hole soon
16. Choose the preposition.............height 17. Choose the noun....................seek 18. Choose the verb.....................listen 19. Choose the article...................in 20. Choose the preposition............climb
B. Complete the chart with examples for each part of speech. Use a dictionary if you want.
DETERMINERS
NOUNS
ADJECTIVES
VERBS
ADVERBS
PARTS OF SPEECH
PREPOSITIONS
CONJUNCTIONS
PRONOUNS
Example: John sleeps. NOUN-VERB a. Jill is eating. b. Jack will arrive next week. c. I like rice. d. She loves her job. e. Hes eating an orange. f. He is funny. g. The workers are lazy. h. Karen seems angry. i. Jim is here. j. Flowers are everywhere. k. No one was there. l. She is my mom. m. The men are doctors. n. Mr. Jones is the teacher.