Download Name Date Period ______ DGP Review Match each part of speech

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Date ____________________________ Period ______
DGP Review
Match each part of speech to its description by writing the corresponding letter on the line.
_____ 1. Common noun
A. Usually stands alone to express strong emotion
B. A specific person, place, or thing; always gets
capitalized
C. A word ending in –ing that looks like a verb but
is actually acting as a noun
D. A word that gives direction or position
E. Describes nouns
F. Must come before an action verb; can never be
the simple predicate in a sentence
G. A general person, place, thing, or idea
H. A, an, the
I. Joins together two independent clauses, two
subjects, or two predicates. Represented by the
acronym FANBOYS
J. Replaces a noun in a sentence, keeping the
sentence or passage from being too repetitive
K. Describes verbs, adjectives, or adverbs
L. Can be a simple predicate, but it is not
something that can be done
M. Introduces a dependent clause within a
sentence
N. “to” plus a verb
O. Something that can actually be done; often the
simple predicate in a sentence.
_____ 2. Proper noun
_____ 3. Action verb
_____ 4. Helping verb
_____ 5. Linking verb
_____ 6. Adjective
_____ 7. Adverb
_____ 8. Interjection
_____ 9. Preposition
_____ 10. Pronoun
_____ 11. Infinitive
_____ 12. Article
_____ 13. Gerund
_____ 14. Coordinating conjunction
_____ 15. Subordinating conjunction
Label each word in the sentences below with its part of speech. Your choices are in the box.
n
N
cc
sub conj
av
lv
hv
adj
adv
int
prep
inf
art
ger
pron
16. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
17. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London.
18. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest
railway station and two miles from the nearest post office.
19. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants.
20. Their names were Ivy, Margaret, and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.
Identify the complete subject(s) and simple subject(s) in each sentence by underlining the complete subject
once and writing an “S” above the simple subject. Identify the complete predicate(s) by underlining them
twice, and put a P above the simple predicate.
21. He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head,
and they liked him almost at once.
22. On the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy was a
little afraid of him, and Edmund wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.
23. As soon as they had said good night to the professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the
girls’ room, and they all talked it over.
24. “That old chap will let us do anything we like.”
25. “I think he’s an old dear,” said Susan.
Identify all of the prepositions in the paragraph below by highlighting or underlining them. Circle all of the
objects of prepositions. Draw a box around each direct object.
“Not for me,” said Peter; “I’m going to explore in the house.” Everyone agreed to this and that was how the
adventures began. It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected
places. There was nothing in one room at all except a bottle on the window sill. “Nothing there!” said Peter, and
they all trooped out again – all except Lucy. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worth while trying
the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt sure that it would be locked. To her surprise, it opened quite easily,
and two moth-balls dropped out.
Find and correct all of the punctuation and capitalization mistakes in the paragraph below.
looking into the inside she saw several coats hanging up – mostly long fur coats There was nothing lucy
liked so much as the smell and feel of fur She immediately stepped into the wardrobe, and got in among the coats
and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open of course because she knew that it is very foolish to shut
oneself into any wardrobe? soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats hanging up
behind the first one, It was almost quite dark in there and She kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not
to bump her face into the back of the Wardrobe. She took a step further in – then two or three steps – always
expecting to feel woodwork against the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it. “This must be a simply
enormous wardrobe! thought lucy.