Grade 1 ELA Practice Test: Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives
- Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
Ten questions on nouns (naming words), verbs (action words) and adjectives (describing words). Tip: ask "Is it a thing, something you do, or a word that tells what it is like?"
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Question 1
Which word names a place?
Correct answer: C
A noun can name a place, and school is a place. Jump is an action, and soft tells what something feels like.
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Question 2
Which word is an action word (a verb)?
Correct answer: D
Swim is something you can do, so it is a verb. Fish and chair name things, and blue is a color word.
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Question 3
The little bird sings.
Which word tells what the bird does?
Correct answer: A
Sings is the action, so it is the verb. Little describes the bird, and bird is the noun.
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Question 4
Which word is a describing word (an adjective)?
Correct answer: B
Tall tells what something is like, as in "a tall tree." Talk and tell are actions, and tree is a noun.
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Question 5
I have a red ball.
Which word tells the color of the ball?
Correct answer: D
Red is an adjective that tells the color. Ball is the thing it describes.
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Question 6
Which word names a person?
Correct answer: A
A teacher is a person. Be careful with teach: it is the action a teacher does, so it is a verb.
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Question 7
Which word finishes the sentence?
The big dog ____ the ball.
Correct answer: C
For one dog we say "the dog chases." "The dog chase" is for more than one, like "the dogs chase," and "the dog chasing" is missing is.
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Question 8
Which word is a proper noun, the special name of one place?
Correct answer: B
Texas is the name of one special place, so it starts with a capital letter. City, river and house are common nouns.
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Question 9
Mia ate a sweet apple.
Which word tells what kind of apple?
Correct answer: C
Sweet describes the apple, so it is the adjective. Ate is the verb, and Mia and apple are nouns.
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Question 10
Which group has only nouns?
Correct answer: D
Cup, frog and park all name things or places. The first wrong group has the verb run in the middle.
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