Parts of Speech Word Search
English has eight traditional parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives. A word's part of speech depends on its job in the sentence, so run can be a verb or a noun.
Parts of Speech word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- adjective
- adverb
- article
- comma
- noun
- phrase
- plural
- pronoun
- sentence
- verb
Parts of Speech word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- adjective
- adverb
- article
- comma
- conjunction
- interjection
- noun
- phrase
- plural
- predicate
- preposition
- pronoun
- sentence
- subject
- verb
Parts of Speech word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- adjective
- adverb
- article
- capital
- clause
- comma
- conjunction
- interjection
- noun
- phrase
- plural
- predicate
- prefix
- preposition
- pronoun
- sentence
- singular
- subject
- tense
- verb
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Words in the Parts of Speech word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- noun
- A word that names a person, place, or thing.
- verb
- A word that shows action or a state of being.
- adjective
- A word that describes a noun, like blue or tall.
- adverb
- A word that describes a verb, often ending in ly.
- pronoun
- A word used in place of a noun, like she.
- sentence
- A group of words that tells one complete thought.
- article
- The words a, an, and the, used before nouns.
- plural
- The form of a noun that means more than one.
- comma
- A mark that shows a short pause in writing.
- phrase
- A small group of words without a subject and verb.
- subject
- The part of a sentence that does the action.
- predicate
- The part of a sentence that tells about the subject.
- preposition
- A word like in, on, or under that shows position.
- conjunction
- A joining word such as and, but, or so.
- interjection
- A short word showing feeling, such as wow or oops.
- clause
- A group of words with its own subject and verb.
- tense
- The verb form showing past, present, or future time.
- singular
- The form of a noun that means just one.
- capital
- An uppercase letter that starts a sentence or a name.
- prefix
- A word part added to the front to change meaning.
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