Directions: Identifying POS.

Underline the parts of speech in each of the following

sentences.
NOUN
1. Quake was also one of the first games to support 3D hardware acceleration.
2. Solar Sunrise is the name given to a series of attacks against the Pentagon and MIT in
February 1998.
3. The Department of Defence traced the attacks back to a mainframe computer in the
former Soviet Union.
4. The Hackers, believed to have been based in the Chinese province of Guangdong.
5. Moonlight Maze refers to an incident in which U.S. officials accidently discovered a
pattern of probing of computer system.

PRONOUN
1. Charles Babbage decided to build a machine to help him complete and print
mathematical table.
2. We learn about ourselves everyday.
3. The president himself visited the area.
4. Thanks to Herman Hollerith, instead of taking seven and a half years to count the census
information, it only took three years.
5. Who designed this website?

ADJECTIVE
1. Beautiful and eccentric, but not really practical from architecture point of view.
2. Twenty-one students failed the exam.
3. The plants need more water.
4. Which plants should be placed over there?
5. It was a memorable trip.

VERBS
1. I wonder what will happen with Joe in the next episode.
2. Ben laughed hysterically.
3. Darth Vader thought of an evil plan to get rid of Darth Sidious.
4. For a minute or two she stood looking at the house.
5. I looked after my sister's cat for the weekend.
ADVERBS
1. The map design was extremely complex.
2. Most of our countrymen are very poor.
3. I absolutely have no idea about the matter.
4. It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously as it went.
5. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank.

PREPOSITION
1. The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield.
2. I sat in the coffee shop.
3. The cat is on the roof.
4. During the summer, I always spend my time playing video games or reading sci-fi books
at home.
5. In the winter, plants somehow “hibernate” just like animals.

CONJUNCTION
1. He wants to buy the house, yet he knows it is too expensive.
2. I cannot go, for I have much to do.
3. We must leave early so we can get to the wedding reception on time.
4. Not only will they leave now, but they will also not be here to help clean up.
5. He went neither to the stadium nor to the concert hall during this vacation.

INTERJECTION
1. Ahem! Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
2. Our team has finally scored a touchdown. Hurray!
3. As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! She was up to
her chin in salt water.
4. Oh, please mind what you’re doing!
5. Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!