Identifying Parts Of Speech

This resource provides a brief but valuable discussion of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In addition to defining each term and including an example, this instructional activity reminds students that a word's part of speech depends on how it is used. After this introduction, young grammarians answer 4 multiple choice questions in which the must define each part of speech and 11 short answer questions in which they must identify the part of speech of an underlined word from a sentence.