The Big Four Parts of Speech Practice Exercises

Practice 1: Correcting Noun Spellings

1. King Kong was taken from the jungle to New York City where he eventually met a sad end.
2. Probably the most famous duck in the world is named Donald Duck.
3. Thousands of nervous high school students across America compete to become students at a prestigious university named Princeton.
4. The small herd of buffalos in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a popular tourist attraction.
5. How many minutes (or hours) each day do you spend listening to your new iPod?

Practice 2: Identifying Adjectives

1. King Kong was taken from the jungle to New York City where he eventually met a sad end.

2. Probably the most famous duck in the world is named Donald Duck.

3. Thousands of nervous high school students across America compete to become students at a prestigious university named Princeton.

4. The small herd of buffalo in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a popular tourist attraction.

5. How many minutes (or hours) each day do you spend listening to your new iPod?

Practice 3: Identifying Verbs and Their Tenses

Present and future tenses are circled; past tenses are underlined.

1. The dogs barked furiously as the cars frantically whizzed past on their way to the rock concert that at midnight.

2. I laughed uproariously when I realized how nervous I had been about doing well on the geography test.

3. More than two dozen species of animals peacefully the wildlife preserve.

4. Trudging wearily through a driving snow to school every day used to be a common event in some parts of the Midwest.

5. Prince, whose original name was Prince Rogers Nelson, famously began his musical career during junior high school with a small band called Grand Central.

Practice 4: Identifying Adverbs

Adverbs are circled.

1. The dogs barked as the cars whizzed past on their way to the rock concert that will begin at midnight.

2. I laughed when I realized how nervous I had been about doing well on the geography test.

3. More than two dozen species of animals inhabit the wildlife preserve.

4. Trudging through a driving snow to school used to be a common event in some parts of the Midwest.

5. Prince, whose original name was Prince Rogers Nelson, began his musical career during junior high school with a small band called Grand Central.

Practice 5: Identifying Correct Verb-Noun Agreement in Sentences

1. a. had
2. b. rescue
3. b. saw
4. b. learned
5. b. are