A. Find examples of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the following sentences and write them below.
1 The alphabet has 26 letters.
2 750,000,000 people use the language.
3 It has five vowels: a, e, i, o and u.
4 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5 He studied the new words very carefully.
Nouns: alphabet, letters, …………………………………
Pronouns: ……………………………………………
Adjectives: ……………………………………………
Verbs: has, ……………………………………………
Adverbs: ……………………………………………
Answers
Nouns: people, language, vowels, fox, dog, words
Pronouns: it, he
Adjectives: quick, brown, lazy, new
Verbs: use, has, jumps, studied
Adverbs: very carefully
B. What is the subject in each of the sentences in Exercise A?
1 the alphabet
2 ………………………….
3 ………………………….
4 ………………………….
5 ………………………….
Answers
2 750,000,000 people 3 It
4 The quick brown fox 5 He
C. Complete the sentences with an appropriate word. Use the part of speech in brackets.
1 He’s a …happy…… child – he’s always smiling. (adjective)
2 ………………… loves her. (pronoun)
3 She ………………… to the pool every Saturday. (verb)
4 Can you speak more …………………? I can’t understand you. (adverb)
5 They’re both very ………………… and thin. (adjective)
6 Luckily, the weather is ………………… good. It has been sunny all week. (adverb)
7 I study at school. I’m a ………………… . (noun)
8 My teacher ………………… really good stories. (verb)
9 They work at the ………………… . They’re nurses. (noun)
10 My cousins live in Brazil. ………………… speak Portuguese. (pronoun)
Answers
Possible answers
2 He 3 goes/comes 4 slowly
5 tall 6 very 7 student 8 tells
9 hospital 10 They
D. Make sentences by putting the words in the correct order.
1 walks / he / quickly ………He walks quickly. ………….
2 we / speak / Russian ……………………………………
3 a / woman / strange / is / she ……………………………………
4 very badly / drives / my aunt ……………………………………
5 they / live / in this street ……………………………………
6 he / two brothers / has ……………………………………
7 the dog / my sandwich / ate ……………………………………
8 we / film / the / new / saw ……………………………………
Answers
2 We speak Russian.
3 She is (‘s) a strange woman.
4 My aunt drives very badly.
5 They live in this street.
6 He has two brothers.
7 The dog ate my sandwich.
8 We saw the new film.
E. Use the words in the box to complete the table below.
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adjectives adverbs nouns pronouns verbs |
|
1 |
……nouns……. |
bee country game giraffe leaves man moon Morocco pizza spider station tennis match woman |
|
2 |
………………….. |
I they we |
|
3 |
………………….. |
beautiful crazy purple small stripy tall ugly wonderful young |
|
4 |
………………….. |
be dance eat go have watch win |
|
5 |
………………….. |
angrily happily quickly quietly sadly slowly |
Now use the words from the table to make ten or more sentences and write them in your notebook. Use the verb in any appropriate tense. Your sentences must be correct but they can by crazy!
Example: The tall man ate his pizza slowly.
Answers
2 pronouns 3 adjectives 4 verbs 5 adverbs
Possible answers
The ugly giraffe danced happily.
The beautiful woman watched the purple moon sadly.
The stripy spider went to Morocco slowly.
We won a crazy tennis match quickly.
F. Circle the correct option.
1 My sister and I love computer games. ………… all the time.
a We play them
b Them play we
c Play we them
2 My uncle speaks four ………… .
a different languages
b languages differents
c differents languages
3 My mother is Spanish and my father is Japanese, but ………… both speak English with me.
a we b them c they
4 I like the book and my friend likes ………… too.
a book b him c it
5 Cat, rabbit, dog and snake are ………… .
a adverbs
b nouns
c pronouns
Answers
1 a 2 a 3 c 4 c 5 b
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