Class 8 Parts of Speech Worksheet

Name: ____________________ Class/Sec: __________ Date: __________

A. Identify the part of speech of the CAPITALISED word.

1. The children played HAPPILY in the garden. __________
2. HONESTY is the best policy. __________
3. She QUICKLY completed her work. __________
4. The old man walked SLOWLY. __________
5. THEY have won the match. __________
6. The cat jumped OVER the wall. __________
7. Riya was tired BUT she continued working. __________
8. WOW! That painting is beautiful. __________

B. Choose the correct option.

1. Which word is a preposition?
   a) beautiful b) under c) softly d) courage
2. Which word is a conjunction?
   a) although b) slowly c) clever d) beside
3. Which word is an adjective?
   a) kindness b) carefully c) enormous d) beneath
4. Which word is a pronoun?
   a) teacher b) they c) honest d) loudly

C. Sort the words into the correct columns.
brave, slowly, honesty, she, between, and, mountain, beautiful, alas, write

Noun	Pronoun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb	Preposition	Conjunction	Interjection

D. The same word can belong to different parts of speech. Identify its use.

1. I WELL remember that day. __________
2. The water in the WELL is clean. __________
3. They WATCH television every evening. __________
4. My father bought an expensive WATCH. __________
5. We arrived EARLY. __________
6. It was an EARLY morning train. __________

E. Find and correct the wrong identification.

1. The little boy smiled. → little = adverb __________
2. She sang sweetly. → sweetly = adjective __________
3. They went to school. → They = noun __________
4. We stayed because it was raining. → because = preposition __________

F. Replace the underlined word as directed.

1. He is a careful driver. Replace the adjective with an adverb.
2. She spoke politely. Replace the adverb with an adjective.
3. Rohan is absent today. Replace the noun with a pronoun.
4. The bird flew above the trees. Replace the preposition with another suitable preposition.

G. Parts of Speech in Context
Read the sentence and identify the part of speech of each bold word:
“The clever boy quickly solved the difficult puzzle, but his sister could not.”

The = __________ clever = __________ quickly = __________
solved = __________ difficult = __________ puzzle = __________
but = __________ his = __________ sister = __________ could = __________

H. Challenge: One sentence, many parts of speech
Write one meaningful sentence containing at least six different parts of speech. Underline the words and label them.

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I. Error Detective
A student says: “In the sentence The birds fly beautifully, birds is a verb and beautifully is an adjective.”
Do you agree? Give the correct identification and explain briefly.

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ANSWER KEY

A: 1 Adverb 2 Noun 3 Adverb 4 Adverb 5 Pronoun 6 Preposition 7 Conjunction 8 Interjection
B: 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b
D: 1 Adverb, 2 Noun, 3 Verb, 4 Noun, 5 Adverb, 6 Adjective
E: 1 adjective, 2 adverb, 3 pronoun, 4 conjunction
G: The–Article/Determiner; clever–Adjective; quickly–Adverb; solved–Verb; difficult–Adjective; puzzle–Noun; but–Conjunction; his–Possessive Determiner; sister–Noun; could–Modal Verb.