Parts of Speech Review — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which word in this sentence is an adverb? "The baby crawled slowly across the rug."
A) baby
B) crawled
C) slowly
D) rug
Slowly tells how the baby crawled — it modifies the verb crawled and is an adverb.
2. In the sentence "Emma or Noah will present the report," what part of speech is the word or?
A) preposition
B) pronoun
C) conjunction
D) adverb
Or joins the two nouns Emma and Noah as a coordinating conjunction, showing an alternative.
3. Which sentence uses a preposition correctly?
A) She sat between her two brothers.
B) She sat between quickly.
C) She between the park walked.
D) Between ran she and him.
Between is used for two items — sitting between two brothers is the correct use of this preposition.
4. In "The clever fox hid behind the bushes," which word is an adjective?
A) fox
B) hid
C) behind
D) clever
Clever describes the fox (a noun) — it tells what kind of fox, so it is an adjective.
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. In "Joy spreads easily," the word joy is a noun because it names a feeling.
Joy is an abstract noun — it names a feeling or idea rather than a physical object.
2. In "They swam across the lake," the word across is a preposition.
Across shows the directional relationship between swimming and the lake — it is a preposition.
3. In "She always finishes her homework," the word always is an adverb.
Always tells when she finishes — it modifies the verb finishes and is an adverb of frequency.
4. The pronoun that replaces "the students" in a sentence is they.
They is the third-person plural pronoun that replaces a plural noun like the students.
5. In "We ate dinner and watched a movie," the word and joins two verbs.
And joins two verbs (ate and watched) in the compound predicate — it is a coordinating conjunction.