Free Parts of Speech MCQs with Answers

1. Choose the word that is a preposition in the sentence: The cat jumped over the wall.

• A. cat
• B. jumped
• C. over
• D. wall

Explanation: Over shows the relationship between the verb and the noun that follows it, which is what a preposition does, and over the wall is the prepositional phrase. Cat and wall are nouns and jumped is the verb. A preposition is always followed by its object, here the wall.

2. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: The results were surprisingly good.

• A. adjective
• B. adverb
• C. noun
• D. verb

Explanation: Surprisingly modifies the adjective good, and a word that modifies an adjective, a verb or another adverb is an adverb. Good itself is the adjective describing results. The ly ending is a useful clue, though not an infallible one, since friendly and lonely are adjectives.

3. Choose the correct comparative form: This question is ____ than the last one.

• A. more easier
• B. easier
• C. most easy
• D. easiest

Explanation: Short adjectives form the comparative with er alone, so combining it with more is a double comparative and is always wrong. Longer adjectives take more instead, as in more difficult. The superlative easiest would need three or more items being compared.

4. Identify the part of speech of the word but in: Everyone attended but Ali.

• A. conjunction
• B. preposition meaning except
• C. adverb
• D. verb

Explanation: Here but means except and governs the noun Ali, which makes it a preposition rather than the coordinating conjunction it usually is. The same word changes class with its function, as happens with for, since and after. Deciding the part of speech always means examining the job the word does in that sentence.

5. The available information amounts to very little 'in toto'. Here 'in toto' is?

• A. Adjective
• B. Adverb
• C. Preposition
• D. None of these

Explanation: “In toto” modifies the extent of the verb phrase “amounts to,” so it functions adverbially. It is an adverbial Latin phrase rather than a single preposition.

6. He met a man who lived in USA last year. What is " who " according to grammar here?

• A. Interrogative Pronoun
• B. Distributive Pronoun
• C. Relative Pronoun
• D. Reciprocal Pronoun

Explanation: “Who” refers back to “a man” and introduces the relative clause “who lived in USA,” so it is a relative pronoun. An interrogative pronoun would ask a question, as in “Who came?”

7. The Alphabets others then (a e i o u) are called ____________?

• A. Vowels
• B. Consonants
• C. Phrase
• D. None of these

Explanation: The five vowel letters are a, e, i, o, and u; the remaining letters are consonants. “Phrase” is a group of words, not a type of alphabet letter.

8. The plural of sheep is __________?

• A. sheeps
• B. sheepers
• C. sheeves
• D. sheep

Explanation: Sheep has the same form in both singular and plural: one sheep, several sheep. The ending “-s” is not added.

9. The selectors made Babar Azam captain. In this sentence 'captain' is ________?

• A. Noun
• B. Object complement
• C. Verb compliment
• D. None of these

Explanation: Captain is an object complement because it renames or describes the object Babar Azam after the verb made. It completes the meaning of “made Babar Azam,” rather than functioning as the main verb.

10. Ali is not my brother. Here word not is?

• A. Verb
• B. Adverb
• C. Preposition
• D. Conjunction

Explanation: Not modifies the verb “is,” showing negation, so it functions as an adverb. It is not a preposition or conjunction because it does not link nouns, phrases, or clauses.