Chapter 1 Worksheet: Parts of Speech

Sharpen your grammar skills! Identify nouns, verbs, and other parts of speech in a fun story and practice words.

Read the following passage: Steve turned to Joe as they crept down the corridor. “What happened to them? How can we possibly defend ourselves from killer–” Joe looked at him sharply. “Shhh! Keep your voice down. You don’t want them to find us, do you? Remember the bones?” Steve looked at him sheepishly. “Sorry.” Amy rolled her eyes at them both. “He has a valid point, though – what are we going to do? We need to have some plan for how we are going to get out of here.” “Uh… guys?” Amy and Steve both stopped and looked back at Joe, who had opened a door a couple of feet back. He was staring through it with a look of awe. Amy went over to see – And was struck speechless. Steve just grinned, looking at the fully stocked armory, and walked over to pick up a bazooka. “Oh yeah. Those bunnies are going down.” 1. Find 4 Nouns: 2. Find 4 Verbs: 3. Find 4 Adjectives: 4. Find 4 Pronouns: 5. Find 2 Adverbs: 6. Find 2 Prepositions: 7. Find 2 Conjunctions: 8. Find 2 Interjections: Identify the parts of speech of each of the Latin words (use the English meanings in parentheses to help you). 1. ambulat (walks) verb 2. in (in, on into) preposition 3. vir (man) noun 4. bona (good) adjective 5. femina (woman) noun 6. respondent (respond) verb 7. et (and) conjunction 8. meum (my) adjective 9. O! (Oh!) interjection 10. me (me) pronoun 11. lente (slowly) adverb