Each question will be worth 1 point (30 questions). The quiz will be on scantron.
Know definitions:
Noun
Proper Noun
Conjunction
Pronoun
Action Verb
Linking Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Prepositional Phrase
Interjection
Independent Clause
Dependent Clause
Definition
Example Sentence
Parts of Speech Identification: Below is a passage taken from one of the short stories that you read in your
literature book. In the passage words or groups of words are underlined. Use the words in the word bank to
identify what part of speech the underlined words are. Some may be used more than once, some may not be
used at all.
A. Noun
E.
Adjective
AE. Conjunction
B. Pronoun
AB. Adverb
BC. Interjection
C. Action Verb
AC. Preposition
BD. Proper Noun
D. Linking Verb
AD. Prepositional Phrase
“Hmm?” said 1. Walter Mitty. 2. He 3. looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked
astonishment. 4. She 5. seemed 6. grossly unfamiliar, like a 7.strange woman who had yelled at him 8. in a
crowd. “You were up to fifty-five,” she said. “9. You know I don’t like to go more than forty. You 10. were up to
fifty-five.” Walter Mitty drove 11. on toward Waterburry 12. in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the
worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the 13. remote, intimate airways of his mind. “You’re
tensed up again,” said 14. Mrs. Mitty. “It’s one your days. I’d wish you’d let Dr. Renshaw look you over.”
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Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex: For practice, work on exercise 36 on p. 484 to