Students please use your grammar book as needed for additional assistance in completing your Parts of Speech Review for Fall Final. Please cut and paste the review and print it out at home and complete. We will go over the answers together in class on Nov 14th Monday.
Due Monday November 14th.
PARTS OF SPEECH
REVIEW 2015
Nouns A: Circle
all the nouns in the following sentences.
1. The announcer said that the bus for Minneapolis would
leave in thirty minutes.
2. Dr. Cooper was in college with my father.
3. John wanted to
change the ribbon on his typewriter, but the ribbon would not cooperate.
4. There was a scream of skidding tires and then a metallic
thud, followed by the sound of splintered glass.
5. Bob and his
brother crossed the continent in their old car last summer.
6. Bob drove through
the desert at night and slept in the daytime.
7. Helen is president of the class, and her sister is
secretary.
8. Brad wrote a paper
about Willa Cather and her life in Pittsburgh.
9. Half of the people in the world can neither read nor
write.
10. There is a fine exhibition of paintings by Thomas Hart
Benton at the Cleveland Public Library.
Nouns B Decide which
of the following words are common nouns and which are proper nouns. Begin each
proper noun with a capital letter.
1. german, science,
language, english
2. lake, lake erie, mountain, mount everest
3. park, joshua national monument, gulf, cape cod
4. village, fairfield township, country, saint paul
5. labor, labor day, good Friday, birthday
6. secretary, governor brown, president johnson, mayor john Lindsay
7. uncle, uncle
harry, sister, father
8. brooklyn bridge,
bridge, rittenhouse square, boston common
9. cathedral, saint,
saint luke’s church, church
10. college, harvard college, university, jefferson high
school, indiana state university
Verbs
A verb or compound verb asserts
something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or
states of being.
The verb or compound verb is the
critical element of the predicate of a sentence.
Underline the verbs in the
following sentences.
1. The band uniforms finally arrived just before Christmas.
2. The trainer stepped into the cage of the wounded lion.
3. The sophomore class has a very good attendance record.
4. Jack walked unsteadily to the stage and swallowed hard.
5. The author tells
of his childhood in a Wyoming ranch.
6. Our team played over its head in the first half.
7. Once, a circus horse literally stuck his right hind foot
into his mouth.
8. Helen enjoys
responsibility.
9. The murderer appears in the second act.
10. All new cars have safety belts as standard equipment.
Helping
Verbs You construct a compound verb out of a helping verb and another verb.
The most common helping verbs are: have,
had, were, is, are, been, will, would, could, should, may, might, do, and does.
Underline
the complete verb
1. The lighthouse keeper had never seen such a storm.
2. When will the next moon probe be launched?
3. The truck driver was completely blinded by the sudden
flash of oncoming lights.
4. Our people have always had enough to eat.
5. The new school
will almost surely be ready by fall.
6. The new law had been poorly enforced.
7. Do you and your brother have enough blankets?
8. The Norwegian freighter had apparently run aground in the
fog.
9. The park bench had
been freshly painted.
10. The fog was now rapidly lifting from the field.
Pronouns: A pronoun can replace a noun or another
pronoun.
Underline the pronouns.
In
1-10 also identify the pronoun antecedent.
1. The doctor told the boys that they could use his boat.
2. Bob, your father wants you to call him.
3. Helen and Karen finished the test first; they found it
easy.
4. The long run brought the crowd to its feet.
5. Jane has her own
ideas, but her family does not agree with her.
6. On the third try, the Nautilus made her way under the
North Pole.
7. The boys cooked their meal in the open.
8. Then Jim’s power
mower broke, the neighbors let him use theirs.
9. Betty has a driver’s license, but she doesn’t have it
with her.
10. The police found
the car, but they couldn’t move it.
11. Someone had dropped her purse into the pool.
12. What have you done to make Mike so happy?
13. This is the kind of problem that baffles me.
14. Is this the face
that launched a thousand ships?
15. Have you had anything to eat?
16. Which of these hats belongs to you?
17. Each one must
fend for himself.
18. Nobody knew the answer to that question.
19. That is the best
course to take.
20. Several of our students won valuable scholarships.
21. Who wrote the
editorial?
22. What did he say?
23. This is the color I prefer.
24. The captain herself gave us permission.
25. Everyone arrived late.
26. That hat is mine.
27. Is that yours?
28. The boys cleaned up the kitchen themselves.
Adjectives
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun
by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes
the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
Underline the adjectives and identify the
word it modifies.
1. The old house had been empty for several years.
2. The second team played during the last quarter.
3. The new coach seems pleasant and competent.
4. The old elephant
was suffering from a bad toothache.
5. A magnetic field
surrounds the entire earth.
6. The new atomic
submarines are spacious and comfortable.
7. The water in the lake tastes salty.
8. Many young
Americans are making important scientific discoveries.
9. The two men in the
other car seemed angry.
10. Most European students can speak the English language.
11. This little book contains some big ideas.
12. A cold wind drove the deep snow into the huge drifts.
13. Some small economy cars are neither small nor
economical.
14. This new arrangement is good for all of us.
Adverbs An adverb can modify a verb, an
adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner,
time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how,"
"when," "where," "how much".
Underline the adverbs and identify the words
they modify.
1. The bus almost
always arrives late.
2. The class worked hard and successfully on the project.
3. The car usually
starts on cold mornings.
4. The streets have become crowded recently.
5. The auditorium was
soon filled.
6. The building was slowly deteriorating.
7. The doctor gave orders quietly and confidently.
8. Polio is sometimes
rather difficult to diagnose.
9. Lately, the
summers have been extremely hot.
10. There goes Mr.
Garrison now.
Conjunctions:
Can be used to link words,
phrases, and clauses.
Use a coordinating
conjunction (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet) to join individual words,
phrases, and independent clauses.
A subordinating conjunction introduces a
dependent clause and indicates the nature of the relationship among the
independent clause(s) and the dependent clause(s). The most common
subordinating conjunctions are: after, although, as, because, before, how, if,
once, since, than, that, though, until, when, where, whether, and while.
Correlative conjunctions always appear in
pairs -- you use them to link equivalent sentence elements. The most common
correlative conjunctions are: both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not
only...but also, so...as, and whether...or.
Underline the conjunctions (coordinating,
correlative, subordinating) and conjunctive verbs.
1. Neither the
speeches nor the music was very exciting.
2. Both the Japanese and the Italian delegates opposed the
attack.
3. The search party worked quickly and carefully.
4. The policeman
beckoned us forward, but we could not move.
5. Although the odds
were against him, Washington drove forward.
6. We were not at
home when the package arrived.
7. The dictionary is a valuable tool; however we must know
how to use it.
8. The outfielders
wear glasses so that the sun will not blind them.
9. We will go to
Mexico and Peru.
10. The burglars went down the alley, into the basement, and
up the stairs.
Prepositions: A preposition links nouns, pronouns and
phrases to other words in a sentence. Some common prepositions are: at, under,
over, of, to, in, out, beneath, beyond, for, among, after, before, within,
down, up, during, without, with, outside, inside, beside, between, by, on, out,
from, until, toward, throughout, across, above, about, around.
Find the prepositions and their objects.
1. The truck was stopped at the border and searched for
arms.
2. During the centuries, the continents have been drifting
apart.
3. Booth jumped to the stage and screamed at the astonished
audience.
4. For many years,
there have been bad feelings between the towns.
5. After the game, the crowd rushed for the goal posts.
6. According to the
morning paper, there will be no school on Friday.
7. Everyone but John had seen the car approaching.
8. Beyond the city
limits there is no rule against fireworks.
9. All but one of the trees died during the winter.
10. To whom is the announcement addressed?
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