Revision Exercise on Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech

ACTIVITY 1

Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words.

Yesterday, we went to the zoo. I enjoyed being there again after so much time. The monkeys looked just as charming, the camels just as bored. We watched the seals being fed – oh, what grace and speed, and they seem to enjoy themselves so much. The pygmy hippo was not to be found, but the jackals were fighting over their lunch and the wild dogs lay panting in the heat.

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ACTIVITY 2

Carefully explain how the differences in the verbs change the meaning of each of the sentences below:

1.         We could study tonight.

2.         We must study tonight.

3.         We shall study tonight.

4.         We would study tonight.

5.         We ought to study tonight.                                                                                       (10)

ACTIVITY 3

Fill suitable prepositions and conjunctions into the following sentences:

1.         …. we decide to go …a movie, will you come … us?          

2.         I have read the story … my little sister … she is now tired … wants to go … bed.

3.         The teachers congratulated the learners … their top achievements in the exam. … was written nationally.

4.         .... the formula 1 driver crashed his car … the barrier, he was taken …. the scene … the accident.

5.         The plane flew … the sea … its journey … the Far East.

6.         Please excuse me … class … I am not feeling at all well.

7.         The learner arrived in class … the skin of her teeth … the teacher was about to start the lesson.

8.         The children sat side … side, listening to the story read … the teacher.

9.         He asked me to fetch the parcel … his behalf … he has been kept late … school.

10.       I was filled … fear … I heard the police siren.

11.       My mother is annoyed …. me …  I cannot cope … my schoolwork.

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ACTIVITY 4

Read the article entitled “Crab escorts, walk this way…” published in the Cape Argus on July 18 2009. Ten of the prepositions have been left out. Decide on the correct preposition and number your answers 1-10.

A Taiwanese park is seeking for 30 volunteers …1 help escort land crabs …2 the journey …3 the sea …4 the breeding season.

Land crabs …5 the Kenting National Park, …6 the southern tip …7 Taiwan, live away …8 shore …9 most of the year.  During the breeding season, however, female crabs carry their fertilised eggs and migrate to the sea to release them.

Volunteers will remove any discarded fishing nets blocking the crabs’ access …10 the sea.

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