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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.

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15 words, adds diagonals

  • adjective
  • adverb
  • article
  • comma
  • conjunction
  • interjection
  • noun
  • phrase
  • plural
  • predicate
  • preposition
  • pronoun
  • sentence
  • subject
  • 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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