Practice Sheet: Identify & Label the Parts of Speech

Directions: Label the part of speech for each word in bold.

Answers are at the bottom of the page.

This excerpt is taken from chapter one of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

When (1) Mary Lennox (2) was (3) sent to Misselthwaite Manor

to live (4) with her uncle everybody (5) said she was the (6) most

disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. (7) She had a

little thin face (8) and a little thin body, thin light hair and a (9) sour

expression. (10) Her hair was (11) yellow, and her face was yellow

(12) because she had been born (13) in (14) India and had always

been ill in one way (15) or another.

- From The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Answers!
1. Mary Lennox = noun 8. and = conjunction

2. was = verb 9. sour = adjective

3. sent = verb 10. her = pronoun/ adjective

4. with = preposition 11. yellow = adjective

5. said = verb 12. because = conjunction

6. most = adverb 13. in = preposition

7. she = pronoun 14. India = noun

15. or = conjunction