8 Parts Of Speech Practice Test! Trivia Quiz
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- 1.A verb that describes physical or mental action is called what type of verb?
- 2.A noun that names a group of things is called what type of noun? It rarely ends in "s."
- 3.What type of noun cannot be perceived by the senses? (love, ambition, liberty..)
- 4.(She, Her) and Sara went to the store. Which is the correct pronoun to use?
- A.
She
- B.
Her
- 5.I went camping with John and (he, him).
- A.
Him
- B.
He
- 6.What is the verb phrase in the following sentence: They did not go running very far.
- 7.What word is being described by the adverb "inside" in the following sentence?A warm fire beckoned the weary travelers inside.
- 8.Prepositional phrases always begin with a _____________ and ends with noun or pronoun.
- 9.Which word is only a preposition when it can be substituted with the word "except," otherwise it is a coordinating conjunction?
- 10.What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence?I ran around the block ten times today.
- 11.Mild interjections are followed by what kind of punctuation?
- A.
Exclamation point
- B.
Semicolon
- C.
Comma
- D.
Period
- E.
Colon
- 12.Interjections that express a sudden burst of emotion are followed by what kind of punctuation?
- A.
Comma
- B.
Semicolon
- C.
Colon
- D.
Exclamation point
- E.
Period
- 13.How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence? During the month of May we went on a trip with our friends to Canada.
- A.
2
- B.
3
- C.
4
- D.
5
- E.
6
- 14.What are the four questions that adverbs can answer?
- A.
Who? when? where? why?
- B.
When? where? how? why?
- C.
When? where? to what extent/degree? what?
- D.
To what extent/degree? when? where? how?
- E.
When? where? to what extent/degree? why?
- 15.What are the three questions that adjectives can answer?
- A.
Who? what? when? where?
- B.
Who? what kind? to what extent/degree?
- C.
Which one? what kind? to what extent/degree
- D.
Which one? what kind? how many?
- E.
Which one? how many? why?
- 16.What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? I will not be going sledding because it's too cold.
- 17.What is the infinitive verb phrase in the following sentence? I want to play baseball today.
- 18.What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or adverb and answers when? where? how? and to what extent?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Preposition
- E.
Noun
- 19.What part of speech connects words or groups of words? Examples are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
- A.
Preposition
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Interjection
- D.
Conjunction
- E.
Pronoun
- 20.What part of speech substitutes for a noun or pronoun? Examples are we, they him, I, you, me, she...
- A.
Pronoun
- B.
Verb
- C.
Conjunction
- D.
Noun
- E.
Interjection
- 21.What part of speech describes a noun or pronoun and answers the questions which one(s)? how many/much? or what kind(s)
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Preposition
- E.
Noun
- 22.Which part of speech expresses a mild or sudden burst of emotion? Examples are wow! or no,.
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Interjection
- D.
Preposition
- E.
Adjective
- 23.Which part of speech describes the distance/placement/proximity of one word and another word in a sentence? Examples are on, to, behind, with...
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Preposition
- C.
Interjection
- D.
Noun
- E.
Conjunction
- 24.What part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea? Examples are house, jury, determination.
- A.
Noun
- B.
Pronoun
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Interjection
- E.
Conjunction
- 25.What type of pronouns are I, we, she, they. him, us? They refer to "people."
- 26.What type of personal pronouns are I, we, she, he and they? They usually belong in the front of a sentence.
- 27.What type of pronouns are me, them her, him, us? They usually belong in the predicate.
- 28.The verbs seems, is, was and had when used alone are what kind of verbs?
- 29.What type of noun is always capitalized? (John, Arizona, France...)
- 30.What type of noun can be perceived by the five senses? (table, bird, school, beach...)
- 31.What type of noun is made up of two or more words? (policeman, father-in-law, real estate...)
- 32.The adjectives a, an, and the are called what kind of adjectives?
- 33.What kind of article is "the"? (it indicates something specific)
- 34.What kind of articles are the words a and an? (they indicate something not specific)
- 35.What is the name of the word that the pronoun stands for or refers to in a sentence? (Mary took her friend with her. "Mary" is the _____________" for the pronouns "her".
- 36.Which word must be able to be switched with the word "because" for it to be a conjunction? (otherwise, it's a preposition)
- A.
But
- B.
Or
- C.
Because
- D.
For
- E.
Yet
- 37.Conjunctions used in pairs are called what kind of conjunctions? (both...and/either...or/neither...nor...) EX: I want both pizza and hot dogs.
- 38.What kind of adjective is the word "American" in the following sentence? The soldiers saluted the American flag.
- 39.The phrases "according to, in addition to, and because of are examples of what kind of prepositions?
- 40.What part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence. Adverb or Preposition? The boys went inside to eat dinner.
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Preposition
- 41.Is the following sentence written actively or passively? Many of the math problems were written down incorrectly by our teacher.
- A.
Passive
- B.
Active
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