Practice in Parts of Speech

Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences. n=noun v=verb prp=pronoun adv=adverb adj=adjective prep=preposition conj=conjunction det=determiner

1. Samuel Johnson who published his famous dictionary in 1755 defined a lexicographer as a harmless drudge.

2. The town where I was born, which has a population of 3,000, offers very little in the way of entertainment for teenagers.

3. As director of personnel, you must often make decisions that are painful to you and your employees.

4. The hurricane bearing down on Florida frightened the residents who lived along the coast.

5. Any book printed before 1501 is called an incunabulum, which literally means

swaddling clothes.

6. Having been a police officer in downtown Nashville for thirty years, my neighbor

grew restless and bored after he retired from the force.

7. This invitation thwarted his latest plan, to buy up a controlling number of stocks.

8. According to the U.S. Customs Service, smuggling birds from the Caribbean has become a big business.

9. To search for the causes of lower SAT scores would be an exercise in conjecture.

10. Until yesterday, I never realized how awesome a redwood tree could be.

Practice in Parts of Sentence

Now identify the parts of sentence, including clauses and phrases, in the same sentences. s=subject v=verb do=direct object io=indirect object obp= object of preposition ppn=predicate pronoun pn=predicate noun padj=predicate adjective ncl=noun clause advcl = adverb clause advph =adv phrase adjcl = adjective clause inf=infinitive inf ph = infinitive phrase part=participle part ph=participle phrase ger=gerund ger ph= gerund phrase If noun clause or an infinitive or gerund phrase is acting as a subject, direct/indirect object, object of the preposition, or predicate noun, please also label: (e.g., ncl=s or inf ph = pn).

1. Samuel Johnson, who published his famous dictionary in 1755, defined a

lexicographer as a harmless drudge.

2. The town where I was born, which has a population of 3,000, offers very little in the

way of entertainment for teenagers.

3. As director of personnel, you must often make decisions that are painful to you and

your employees.

4. The hurricane bearing down on Florida frightened the residents who lived along the

coast.

5. Any book printed before 1501 is called an incunabulum, which literally means

swaddling clothes.

6. Having been a police officer in downtown Nashville for thirty years, my neighbor

grew restless and bored after he retired from the force.

7. This invitation thwarted his latest plan, to buy up a controlling number of stocks.

8. According to the U.S. Customs Service, smuggling birds from the Caribbean has

become a big business.

9. To search for the causes of lower SAT scores would be an exercise in conjecture.

10. Until yesterday, I never realized how awesome a redwood tree could be.