The 8 Parts of Speech for English

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The state of being active (6)
  2. 6. A point located with respect to surface features of some region (5)
  3. 7. A sudden and decisive increase (4)
  4. 9. And nothing more (3)
  5. 10. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences (11)
  6. 11. An abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion (12)
  7. 12. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence (4)
  8. 13. A grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners (6)

Down

  1. 1. To excite the curiosity of (11)
  2. 2. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses (6)
  3. 3. Located farther aft (5)
  4. 4. Without speaking (8)
  5. 5. The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition (4)
  6. 6. A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a ___ phrase (11)
  7. 8. A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase (7)
  8. 11. The content of cognition (4)