8 parts of Speech Test practice
44 Questions I 4822 Attempts I Created By brianseguin 1565 days agoThis practice test will measure how prepared you are for the up coming 8 parts of speech test.
Question Excerpt From 8 parts of Speech Test practice
| Q.1) | What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb and answers when? where? how? and to what extent? |
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| Q.2) | What part of speech connects words or groups of words? Examples are but, or and yet. |
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| Q.3) | What part of speech substitutes for a noun or pronoun? Examples are we, they him. |
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| Q.4) | What part of speech describes a noun or pronoun and answers the questions which one? how many? which one(s)? |
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| Q.5) | Which part of speech expresses a mild or sudden burst of emotion? Examples are wow! or no,. |
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| Q.6) | Which part of speech describes the distance/placement/proximity of one word and another word in a sentence? Examples are on, to, behind, with. |
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| Q.7) | Which part of speech describes an action or state of being or condition? Examples are throw, run. was, is, seems. |
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| Q.8) | What part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea? Examples are house, jury, determination. |
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| Q.9) | What type of pronouns are I, we, she, they. him, us? They refer to "people." |
| Q.10) | What type of personal pronouns are I, we, she, he and they? They usually belong in the front of a sentence. |
| Q.11) | What type of pronouns are me, them her, him, us? They usually belong in the predicate. |
| Q.12) | The verbs seems, is, was and had when used alone are what kind of verbs? |
| Q.13) | A verb that describes physical or mental action is called what type of verb? |
| Q.14) | A noun that names a group of things is called what type of noun? It rarely ends in "s." |
| Q.15) | What type of noun is always capitalized? |
| Q.16) | What type of noun can be perceived by the five senses? |
| Q.17) | What type of noun is made up of two or more words? |
| Q.18) | What type of noun cannot be perceived by the senses? (love, ambition, liberty..) |
| Q.19) | The adjectives a, an, and the are called what kind of adjectives? |
| Q.20) | What kind of article is "the"? |
| Q.21) | What kind of articles are the words a and an? |
| Q.22) | What is the name of the word that the pronoun stands for or refers to in a sentence? |
| Q.23) | Which word must be able to be switched with the word "because" for it to be a conjunction? |
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| Q.24) | Conjunctions used in pairs are called what kind of conjunctions? (both...and/either...or/...) |
| Q.25) | (She, Her) and Sara went to the store. Which is the correct pronoun to use? |
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| Q.26) | I went camping with John and (he, him). |
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| Q.27) | What is the verb phrase in the following sentence: They did not go running very far. |
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What kind of adjective is the word "American" in the following sentence? The soldiers saluted the American flag.
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What word is being described by the adverb "inside" in the following sentence? A warm fire beckoned the weary travelers inside.
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| Q.30) | Prepositional phrases always begin with a _____________ and ends with noun or pronoun. |
| Q.31) | Which word is only a preposition when it can be substituted with the word "except," otherwise it is a coordinating conjunction? |
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What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence? I ran around the block ten times today.
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| Q.33) | The phrases "according to, in addition to, and because of are examples of what kind of prepositions? |
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What part of speech is the bolded word in the following sentence. Adverb or Preposition? The boys went inside to eat dinner.
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Is the following sentence written actively or passively? Many of the math problems were written down wrong.
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| Q.36) | Mild interjections are followed by what kind of punctuation? |
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| Q.37) | Interjections that express a sudden burst of emotion are followed by what kind of punctuation? |
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How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence? During the month of May we went on a trip with our friends to Canada.
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| Q.39) | What are the four questions that adverbs can answer? |
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What are the three questions that adjectives can answer?
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What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? I will not be going sledding because it's too cold.
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What is the infinitive verb phrase in the following sentence? I want to play baseball today.
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How many adjectives are in the following sentence, including articles? The red car roared around the sharp corner and hit an old oak tree.
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| Q.44) | The noun "mob" is a common noun, a concrete noun, and.......what is the last kind? |
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Some hard, technical questions. Good quiz. posted by:brianseguin 1564 days ago
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