This document provides a parts of speech review and practice identifying parts of speech in sentences. It includes: I. A review of parts of speech charts. II. An example sentence labeled with the part of speech for each word. III. Suggestions for additional online parts of speech practice. IV. 10 sentences with an underlined word identified as a specific part of speech and the answers provided.

1. Parts of Speech Review – Wathen
I. Review the charts below.

2. II. Practice identifying parts of speech.
The following sentence contains all of the parts of speech. Each is labeled to give you an idea of ways
the words will appear in regular use. Check your work using the answer below.
Oh, they polluted the formerly crystal blue water in the lake on the Johnson's farm, and it is thick and murky
from the chemicals.
Answer:
Oh(interjection), they(pronoun) polluted(verb) the(adjective) formerly(adverb) crystal(adjective)
blue(adjective) water(noun) in(preposition) the(adjective) lake(noun) on(preposition) the(adjective)
Johnson's(adjective) farm(noun), and(conjunction) it(pronoun) is(verb) thick(adjective)
and(conjunction) murky(adjective) from(preposition) the(adjective) chemicals(noun).
III. More practice
For more practice, go to the websites below and practice, practice, practice!
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpartsp.html
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=1
IV. Identify the underlined parts of speech in the sentences below. (Answers below)
1. Pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897.
2. Amelia graduated from high school in Chicago in 1916.
3. She became an army nurse in Canada during World War I.
4. She learned to fly.
5. She was chosen to take part in a transatlantic flight as passenger and standby pilot.
6. In 1931 she married G. P. Putnam but continued to use her own name.
7. She flew out over the Atlantic by herself.
8. Ice on the wings forced her to fly at extremely low altitudes.
9. In 1935 she became the first person to fly from Hawaii to California.
10. This trip was less eventful than crossing the Atlantic ocean.
1. Pioneer = Adjective
2. graduated = action verb
3. in = preposition
4. She = pronoun
5. and = conjunction
6. name = noun
7. out = adverb
8. forced = action verb
9. from = preposition
10. Atlantic = adjective

3. English 2 Speech Honors Parts of Speech Diagnostic Practice
Decide which part of speech the underlined word is as it is used in the sentence.
a. noun b. action verb c. linking verb d. adjective e. adverb
ab. pronoun ac. preposition ad. conjunction ae. interjection
• I can be 1) proud of my child if I didn’t ruin her, 2) but nobody 3) has any right to be proud of his 4) ancestors.
(Margaret Mead – anthropologist)
• 5) We should all be concerned 6) about the 7) future 8) because we will have to spend the rest of our lives
9) there. (Charles Kettering – inventor)
• 10) Mark Twain said, “Always do right. 11) This will gratify some 12) people, and 13) astonish the rest.”
• 14) If you 15) want a golden rule that will fit 16) everybody, this is it: Have nothing 17) in your houses that
you do not know to be 18) useful or believe to be beautiful. (William Morris – art critic)
• I 19) like to walk about amidst the 20) beautiful things that 21) adorn the 22) world, but 23) private wealth I
should decline or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my 24) liberty. (George
Santayana – philosopher)
• There are only two or three 25) human 26) stories, and 27) they go on repeating 28) themselves as 29) fiercely
as if they had never happened 30) before. (Willa Cather – author)
• No one can make you 31) feel 32) inferior 33) without your 34) consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt – stateswoman)
Answers:
1. d 9. ab 17. ac 25. d 33. ac
2. ad. 10. a 18. d 26. a 34. a
3. b 11. ab 19. b 27. ab
4. a 12. a 20. d 28. ab
5. ab 13. b 21. b 29. e
6. ac 14. ad 22. a 30. e
7. a 15. b 23. d 31. c
8. ad 16. ab 24. a 32. d