Name every word
You learn to name every word of a sentence with its word class.
How to do the test
- Find the verb first.
- Find the nouns with the, a or an in front of them.
- Name each word that is left with its own test.
Name every word. The small dog barked loudly.
- Find the verb first: barked.
- Then find the noun with the, a or an in front of it: dog.
- Name each word that is left with its own test.
- The = determiner, small = adjective, dog = noun, barked = verb, loudly = adverb.
More examples
Name every word. She hid under the big bed.
- Find the verb first: hid.
- Then find the noun with the, a or an in front of it: bed.
- Name each word that is left with its own test.
- She = pronoun, hid = verb, under = preposition, the = determiner, big = adjective, bed = noun.
Name every word. The birds sang beside our house.
- Find the verb first: sang.
- Then find the noun with the, a or an in front of it: birds and house.
- Name each word that is left with its own test.
- The = determiner, birds = noun, sang = verb, beside = preposition, our = determiner, house = noun.