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(ESL001) 1.1.2 - Parts of Speech

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Let's Practice Parts of Speech!

Start

MAIN HALL
wc

ALERT!

ROOM 2
ROOM 3

Someone has stolen the museum’s most valuable artworks — The Noun of Knowledge, The Verb of Action, and The Adjective of Beauty.

The thief has left a note: "Find the parts of speech, and you’ll find your art!" The security doors are closing in 30 minutes. Let’s recover those paintings!

ROOM 1

Start by clicking on "Room 1".

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

Question 1

In a sentence, what do we call a person, place, or thing?

Noun
Verb
Adjective

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

Question 2

What shows an action or a state?

Preposition
Noun
Verb

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

Question 3

What describes or modifies a noun?

Verb
Pronoun
Adjective

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

Question 4

What takes the place of a noun to avoid repetition?

Noun
Adjective
Pronoun

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

Question 5

What modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb?

Adverb
Preposition
Conjunction

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

Room 1

Here you can put a highlighted title

Great Work!You have found all the works of art in this room including "The Noun of Knowledge!"

CONTINUE

Room 1

The Noun of Knowledge

A piece of the museum has been broken! Try again!

MAIN HALL
wc
ROOM 2
ROOM 3

ALERT!

Great work!

Great work solving Room 1, but there is still work to do to find all the missing artifacts!

ROOM 1

Click on "Room 2" to begin!

Room 2

The Verb of Action

Question 1
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Room 2

The Verb of Action

Question 2

What connects words or groups of words?

Conjunction
Interjection

Room 2

The Verb of Action

Question 3

What expresses a strong feeling or emotion?

Conjunction
Interjection

Room 2

Room 2

\The Verb of Action

The Verb of Action

Great Work!You have found all the works of art in this room including "The Verb of Action!"

CONTINUE

Room 2

The Verb of Action

A piece of the museum has been broken! Try again!

MAIN HALL
wc
ROOM 2
ROOM 3

ALERT!

Great work!

Great work solving Room 2, but there is still work to do to find all the missing artifacts!

ROOM 1

Click on "Room 3" to begin!

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Question 1

Which word in the sentence is a noun? "The cat is cute."

Cute
Cat

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Question 2

Which word in the sentence is a verb? "The woman runs quickly around the track."

Quickly
Runs

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Question 3

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun? "She gave a book to Tom"

She
Tom

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Question 4

Which word in the sentence is an adjective? "The red fox jumps over the dog."

Red
Over

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Question 5

Which of the following sentences correctly use a conjunction?

"He is tall and he is smart."
"They went to the park on a sunny day."

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Question 6

Which of the following sentences correctly use an interjection?

"I am excited to go to the store to get a new shirt later."
"Oh no! I forgot my keys at home!"

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

Great Work!You have found all the works of art in this room including "The Adjective of Beauty"

CONTINUE

Room 3

The Adjective of Beauty

A piece of the museum has been broken! Try again!

Restart

Congratulations!

You have recovered all the museum's works!

Source & License: This learning activity is adapted from "Match the parts of speech with an example" by Otago Polytechnic, and "Find the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs in the sentences", by Sarah Darling, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This remix by Saylor Academy includes adapted and original instructional. All instructional content, including AI-assisted adaptations and custom interactive learning activities created on Genially, is licensed by Saylor Academy under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. All Genially proprietary elements such as templates, themes, built-in assets, stock media, and other “Genially Content” remain subject to Genially's Terms of Service and are not covered by this Creative Commons license. These elements must remain embedded in the course and cannot be reused or redistributed independently.

Drag the words into the box labeled as its appropriate part of speech. Once you get all the words correct, click the "Continue" button.

Excited

Hungry

Environment

Forget

Doctor

Information

Prepare

Explain

Dangerous

Adjectives

Verbs

Nouns

Excited

Forget

Doctor

Hungry

Explain

Information

Dangerous

Environment

Prepare

Continue

Click the lightbulb to check your answers!