Name:_______________________________________
Mrs. Daniel Block _________________________
English 9H
Date: ________________________________________
Parts of Speech Review Warm-up #2
Part I: Read the passage (excerpted from Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”) and answer the
questions below.
(1)I soon found out why old Chong had retired from teaching piano. (2) He
was deaf. (3) “Like Beethoven!” he shouted to me. (4) “We’re both listening only in
our head!” (5) And he would start to conduct his frantic silent sonatas.
(6) Our lessons went like this. (7) HE would open the book and point to
different things, explaining their purpose: “Key! Treble! Bass! No sharps or flats! (8)
So this is C major! (9) Listen now and play after me!”
(10) And then he would play the C scale a few times, a simple chord, and
then, as if inspired by an old, unreachable itch, he gradually added more notes…and
a pounding bass until the music was really something quite grand.
1. What is the proper noun in sentence 1?
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2. Is the verb in sentenced 2 and action verb or a linking verb? What is the verb?
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3. What is the pronoun in sentence 3? What is its antecedent?
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4. Is the noun in sentence 4 common or proper? What is it?
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5. What are they adjectives in sentence 5?
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6. Where is the pronoun in sentence 6?
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7. What kind of verb is would in sentence 7? How do you know?
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8. What are the verbs in sentence 9? What kind of verbs are they?
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9. Identify 3 adjectives in sentence 10.
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