Parts of speech exercise

Parts of speech exercise
Words in English belong to different parts of speech. In each of the following sentences, there is a bolded word.
Can you identify what part of speech it is?
1. I want to go now.
a) Adjective
b) Adverb
c) Preposition
d) Conjunction
2. What are you doing
there
?
a) Preposition
b) Adjective
c) Adverb
d) Verb
3. He left
ten
minutes ago.
a) Noun
b) Adjective
c) Conjunction
d) Adverb
4. There is a mistake
in
line 9.
a) Adverb
b) Conjunction
c) Preposition
d) Noun
5. Masons
build

houses.
a) Verb
b) Adverb
c) Adjective
d) Preposition
6.
Though
she was unwell, she went to work.
a) Conjunction
b) Preposition
c) Adverb
d) Adjective
7. I have been reading since
morning
.
a) Adjective
b) Noun
c) Verb
d) Adverb
8. He died two years
ago
.
a) Verb
b) Adverb
c) Adjective
d) Preposition
9.
As
she was late, we went without her.
a) Preposition

b) Conjunction
c) Adverb
d) Verb
10.
The Nile
is the longest river in the world.
a) Pronoun
b) Proper noun
c) Preposition
d) Adjective
11. What happened to
you
?
a) Noun
b) Pronoun
c) Conjunction
d) Preposition
12. My family live in
different
parts of India.
a) Adjective
b) Verb
c) Preposition
d) Conjunction
Answers
1. Adverb
2. Adverb
3. Adjective
4. Preposition
5. Verb

6. Conjunction
7. Noun
8. Adverb
9. Conjunction
10. Proper noun
11. Pronoun
12. Adjective (It modifies the noun parts.)
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