Parts of Speech

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition (4)
  2. 4. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses (6)
  3. 6. An abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion (12)
  4. 7. A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase (7)
  5. 8. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence (4)

Down

  1. 1. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences (11)
  2. 2. A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a ___ phrase (11)
  3. 5. The word class that qualifies nouns (9)