Parts of speech exercise

Read the instructions given with each question and find the best answer.

complexity, analysis, thesis, axis

ridiculous, sophisticated, anxious, complex

penance, science, monotonous, vibrancy

Correct! Wrong!

kind, vibrant, luminance, eager

autonomous, eligible, warm, open

ridicule, ignore, captivate, enchant

Correct! Wrong!

activate, annul, propagate, surrender

emulate, dilapidated, enamor, renounce

propaganda, verify, eagerly, overt

Correct! Wrong!

up, yesterday, hard, fatally

deadly, open, vast, thoroughly

privacy, provocatively, anxiously, well

Correct! Wrong!

down, out, under, with

so, because, however, yet

and, but, or, because of

Correct! Wrong!

behind, into, when, as

between, over, across, to

from, while, whereas, near

Correct! Wrong!

Answers

1. a) complexity, analysis, thesis, axis

2. b) autonomous, eligible, warm, open

3. a) activate, annul, propagate, surrender

4. a) up, yesterday, hard, fatally

5. b) so, because, however, yet

6. c) between, over, across, to

Notes

Nouns are the names of people, things or places.

Adjectives are describing words.

Verbs are action words.

Conjunctions are joining words.

Adverbs are words used to modify verbs.

Prepositions are words used to join a noun to another word in the sentence.