Pre-Test Parts of Speech

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Parts of Speech

Exercise:

Directions: Underline the nouns in each of the following sentences:

1. Jason enjoyed the movie about France.

2. The musicians play marching songs.

3. Music lovers thrill to the sound of trumpets.

4. Boys and girls are often eager to listen.

5. The conductor moves his baton vigorously.

Directions: Underline the pronouns in each of the following sentences:

1. You and John are the boys who will have to pay for the damage.

2. Mr. Gunsher gave us the record which was just played.

3. She cried loudly, and each of us heard her.

4. They felt flattered by our attention to them.

5. Everyone followed the directions the faculty members had given each of them.

Directions: Underline the adjectives in each of the following sentences.

1. The interior plateau of the Union of South Africa is called its veldt.

2. There are countless millions of gaseous bodies called stars.

3. Baseball, enjoyed by many cheering fans today, was played here and in merry England before

1839.
Exercises:

Directions: Underline the verb (or verb phrase) in the following sentences.

1. A micron is a unit of length.

2. There are over a thousand millimeters in a yard.

3. Freva was the Saxon Goddess of Beauty.

V. ADVERBS

Exercise:

Directions: Underline the adverbs in the following sentences.

1. The name "sirocco" is often given to a warm wind.

2. I t is usually given to a warm wind blowing over large areas of hot, dry land.

3. Such winds now occur over the area of our Great Plains.

4. Originally "sirocco" was a name used by people of North Africa.

5. It was not used for ordinary wind.


VI. PREPOSITION

Exercise:

1. There are sixty-four mountain peaks in the United States over 14, 000 feet high.

2. The state of Colorado claims forty-eight of these tall mountains.

3. The highest of them all, Mount Whitney, is in California.

4. Mount Whitney rises to the height of 14,495 feet.

5. Colorado claims the possession of the second highest mountain.

CONJUNCTION

Exercise:

Directions: Underline the conjunctions in the following sentences.

1. Janet and Joan are twins, but they are different in many ways.

2. While basalt is one of the heaviest rocks, pumice floats in water.

3. If you have used a piece of pumice stone to rid your fingers of grime, you know of its other

qualities.

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