Identify the Following parts of speech as one of the following: (N) noun, (P) pronoun, (Adj) adjective, (AV) adverb, (V) verb, (Pre) preposition, (I) interjection, (C) conjunction

1.  The clown chased a dog around the ring and then fell flat on her face.

2.  The geese indolently waddled across the intersection.

3.  Yikes! I'm late for class.

4.  Bruno's shabby thesaurus tumbled out of the book bag when the bus suddenly pulled out into traffic.

5.  Mr. Frederick angrily stamped out the fire that the local hooligans had started on his verandah.

6.  Later that summer, she asked herself, "What was I thinking of?"

7.  Although she gave hundreds of zucchini away, the enormous mound left over frightened her.

8.  Everywhere she went, she talked about the prolific veggies.

9.  The manager confidently made his presentation to the board of directors.

10.  Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster.

11.  Her greatest fear is that the world will end before she finds a comfortable pair of panty-hose.

12.  That suitcase is hers.

13.  Everyone in the room cheered when the announcement was made.

14.  The sun was shining as we set out for our first winter camping trip.

15.  Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.

16.  Dust covered every surface in the locked bedroom.

17.  The census taker knocked loudly on all the doors but nobody was home.

18.  They wondered if there truly was honour among thieves.

19.  Exciting new products and effective marketing strategies will guarantee the company's success.

20.  She thought that the twenty zucchini plants would not be enough so she planted another ten.

Identify the pronouns in the following sentences. Be sure to include personal, possessive, indefinite, interrogative, demonstrative, and reflexive.

1. He sat beneath the shimmering sky, entranced by the beauty of each star’s pronouncement of its mission to enlighten a corner of the world.

2. “The mistake is all mine,” she admitted willingly, deeply moved by the consequence of her action.

3. The men in the room each drew a straw to determine who would take the watch until morning.

4. Love is an interesting entity that cannot be touched yet is within the reach of those bodies who will acknowledge that it exists.

5. This is the essence of the message he was about to deliver to them.

The direct object is a noun or a pronoun that receives the action of the verb or shows the result of the action.
The direct object tells what or whom after an action verb.

Circle the verb and underline the direct object in each sentence. Put brackets around the prepositional phrase and label the object of the preposition.

1. Has Congress considered the new bill?

2. A clown walked the tightrope during the circus show.

3. Mr. Benson donated a car for the raffle.

5. After dinner, I’ll finish my project for Mrs. Spears’s class.

An indirect object is a noun or a pronoun that comes between the action verb and the direct object and tells to what or to whom or for what or for whom the action of the verb is done.

Circle the verb, underline the indirect object and double underline the indirect object.

1. Mrs. Spears gave Shane detention because he wouldn’t sit still.

2. Coach Chambers made the team run for not turning in their Academics First form.

Passive or Active Voice—A sentence is active if the subject performs the action. A sentence is passive if the subject receives the action. As a general rule, however, the active voice is shorter, more direct, and more dynamic than the passive voice.

___1. An unexpected tornado smashed several homes and uprooted trees in a suburb of

Knoxville.

___2. The apples were eaten by John.

___3. Martha asked the professor a question.

___4. Laura invited Nancy to a party this Saturday night at 8:00.

___5. "The Yellow Wallpaper" was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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Typically, an adverb or prepositional phrase modifies an intransitive verb or the verb ends the sentence. To determine whether a verb is intransitive ask whether the action is done in some way, in some direction or to some degree. Does a noun receive the action of the verb? If it does, then the verb is transitive and the person or thing that receives its action is the direct object.

Write an I if the verb is intransitive and a T if it is transitive.

____1. I slept.

____2. The cat chased the mouse.

____3. The sun rose.

____4. I graded papers all night.

1. This type of noun names a noun that can be perceived by the senses.

2.. This part of speech describes a noun

3. This type of noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.

4. This type of noun names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic.

5. This type of noun that has two or more words used together as a single noun.

6. The words a, an, the are known as ______.

7. This type of noun names a group.

8. This part of speech adds emotion to a sentence and offers no other value.

9. This part of speech can modify itself, a verb and an adjective.

10. This part of speech answers What kind? How many? How much?

11. This part of speech answers How? When? Where and to what extent?

12. This part of speech substitutes or fills in for a noun.

13. This part of speech links items in a sentence together

14. This part of speech shows where the noun is.

15. This part of speech shows action or a state of being.

You must know all prepositions and pronouns. Don’t forget to study ALL of the pronouns.

You must also know all of the helping verbs “May be Mr. Do Should Have a Will”

Know the location of objects and what an object can not be a part of.

Predicate adjective and Predicate nominative (know that they follow linking verbs ONLY)

A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and tells us something about the subject:

·  Ramonita is beautiful.

·  His behavior has been outrageous.

·  That garbage on the street smells bad.

A predicate nominative follows a linking verb and tells us what the subject is:

·  Dr. Couchworthy is acting president of the university.

·  She used to be the tallest girl on the team.

Predicate Nominative

A predicate nominative is a noun or pronoun which follows the verb and describes or renames the subject. It is another way of naming the subject. It follows a linking verb.