DGP – SENTENCE 1 Parts of Speech SENTENCE / WORD BANK Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? Word Bank: action verb, adjective, helping verb, infinitive, interjection, interrogative pronoun, noun, preposition, pronoun COMPARE Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same preposition. “I labeled ________ as a preposition because __________.” CORRECT ANSWER Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? oh = interjection (expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence) what = interrogative pronoun (asks a question) have = helping verb (“helps” an action verb or linking verb) I = pronoun (takes the place of a noun) done = action verb (shows action) CORRECT ANSWER Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? to be blessed = infinitive (to + verb) with = preposition (shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) such = adjective (modifies and noun or pronoun) friends = noun (person, place, thing, idea)