PARTS OF SPEECH CLOZE EXERCISE
DIRECTIONS:
Identify & supply the part of speech that is missing from each sentence.
It will help you to use contextual analysis---in other words, look at the other words in the sentence.
Clues are italicized in first two sentences.
1. I_________ that if this ________ heat continues, then we will have a _________ high water bill.
2. The __________ that I ________ you to ________ here was to _____________ your attitude.
3. ______________ people are not always as ______________ as we think.
4. When you ____________ with that ______________, I will have another for you.
5. We _______________ to ____________ a yard sale, but the ____________ weather did not ______.
6. The __________ thing that keeps you from succeeding is ______________ and a ____________ desire.
7. A ________car you can ___________ anytime, an education will last _________________.
8. My ___________ for her are _______ strong, my heart begins to ____________ when she leaves.
9. How do you _____________ when you have had no ______________?
10. The _________ in the ________ lane was _____________, so we _____________ _____________.
11. ___________ a light bulb ________ ___________ than you think.
12. Discover what you _________ in life, and _________ will find _________________ in what you do.
13. The _______ about fitness is that if _______ exercise before you _____, then you will gain _____ weight.
14. The _______that she wanted to ______ had less ___________ on it than the ______ one that she _____.
15. The ______ way to get book ______ to lower their _________ is to buy ________ elsewhere.
16. ____________ breakfast ____ probably not a ______ _____ idea if you ____ to think.
17. The best _____ to save _______ is to not _________ it.
18. When she ______ me the ________ news __________ his injury, she could not stop ______________.
19. If you think that ____ are ______and don’t ____ in to society, then you _____ _____ a normal ________.
20. I would not _____ to have a ______ who went _______ medicine for the _________________.
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