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Parts of speech in action

English · Year 7

Name: ______________________Date: ____________

Once you know what nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs do, the real skill is spotting them inside real sentences — where several might appear together. A useful trick: ask what job each word is doing. Is it naming something (noun)? Showing an action (verb)? Describing a noun (adjective)? Describing how, when or where something happens (adverb)? Some words can even change job depending on the sentence.

Example

"The clever fox quickly hid inside the old barn." Fox and barn are nouns, hid is the verb, clever and old are adjectives (describing fox and barn), and quickly is the adverb (describing how it hid).

Key terms

Noun:
A word that names a person, place, thing or idea.
Verb:
A word that shows an action or a state of being.
Adjective:
A word that describes a noun.
Adverb:
A word that describes a verb, adjective or another adverb.

Questions

  1. 1. In "The clever fox quickly hid", which word is the noun?

    • The
    • fox
    • hid
    • clever
  2. 2. In "The clever fox quickly hid", which word is the verb?

    • clever
    • quickly
    • hid
    • fox
  3. 3. Which of these words is a noun?

    • Jump
    • Barn
    • Slowly
    • Old
  4. 4. Which of these words is a verb?

    • River
    • Hid
    • Green
    • Carefully
  5. 5. In "the old barn", which word is the adjective?

    • the
    • old
    • barn
    • none
  6. 6. An adjective's job is to:

    • Name a thing
    • Describe a noun
    • Show an action
    • Replace a comma
  7. 7. A verb's job is to:

    • Describe a noun
    • Show an action or state
    • Name a place
    • End a sentence
  8. 8. In "The fox hid quickly", which word is the adverb?

    • The
    • fox
    • hid
    • quickly
  9. 9. Which word describes how something happened in "She sang beautifully"?

    • She
    • sang
    • beautifully
    • none
  10. 10. In "The tall boy laughed loudly", which word is the adjective?

    • tall
    • boy
    • laughed
    • loudly
  11. 11. In "The tall boy laughed loudly", which word is the adverb?

    • tall
    • boy
    • laughed
    • loudly
  12. 12. Which sentence correctly uses an adverb?

    • She ran quick.
    • She ran quickly.
    • She quick ran.
    • She ran a quick.
  13. 13. In "My noisy neighbour arrived early", which word is the noun?

    • noisy
    • neighbour
    • arrived
    • early
  14. 14. In "My noisy neighbour arrived early", which word is the verb?

    • noisy
    • neighbour
    • arrived
    • early
  15. 15. In "The extremely old barn creaked loudly in the wind", which word describes "old"?

    • The
    • extremely
    • barn
    • loudly
  16. 16. In "I need to book a flight", "book" is being used as a:

    • Noun
    • Verb
    • Adjective
    • Adverb
  17. 17. In "I read a good book", "book" is being used as a:

    • Noun
    • Verb
    • Adjective
    • Adverb
  18. 18. In "She quietly and carefully wrapped the gift", how many adverbs are there?

    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
  19. 19. In "The fast, red car sped away", which words are adjectives?

    • fast, red
    • car, sped
    • away
    • the
  20. 20. Which word can act as both a noun and a verb, depending on the sentence?

    • Quickly
    • Fish
    • Old
    • The

Answer key (parent copy)

  1. 1. fox
  2. 2. hid
  3. 3. Barn
  4. 4. Hid
  5. 5. old
  6. 6. Describe a noun
  7. 7. Show an action or state
  8. 8. quickly
  9. 9. beautifully
  10. 10. tall
  11. 11. loudly
  12. 12. She ran quickly.
  13. 13. neighbour
  14. 14. arrived
  15. 15. extremely
  16. 16. Verb
  17. 17. Noun
  18. 18. 2
  19. 19. fast, red
  20. 20. Fish