Parts of Speech ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets

In this section, you will find all our ESL teaching activities, games and worksheets relating to parts of speech. There are eight parts of speech in the English language: adjective, adverb, verb, noun, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection. Understanding the parts of speech and the differences between them is vital for students of English as they move toward more complex language structures. This is why we have made it our mission to provide memorable and insightful parts of speech teaching activities, games and worksheets that help students understand word meaning, word function, and how to use words grammatically within a sentence.

It's important for students to gain a clear and thorough understanding of parts of speech, so we have broken down some of the eight parts of speech into smaller sections to give students a better understanding of the use and function of words, and how each type of word is joined together to make meaningful communication. For example, instead of just having a section called 'Nouns', we have divided the part of speech into types of noun, e.g. common and proper nouns, compound nouns, singular and plural nouns, etc. Whether teaching parts of speech to lower-level or more advanced students, these activities are an excellent way to practice parts of speech and have fun at the same time.

 
On this page, you will find parts of speech games and activities about abstract nouns that help students learn and practice nouns that represent intangible ideas—things you can't see or touch.
 
These captivating parts of speech activities, games and worksheets help to develop students' knowledge of common adjectives, adjective-noun collocations and -ed and -ing adjectives. Students can also learn how to describe, explain, and express opinions with adjective forms, recognize adjectives that have a similar but stronger meaning, etc.
 
These fun parts of speech ESL games and worksheets help to teach students adjective noun-collocations. The page contains various activities that help students learn common adjective and noun collocations as well as how to combine adjectives and nouns together to convey a specific meaning.
 
Here you will find engaging parts of speech activities and games to help teach students adjectives that describe feelings and emotions. The resources also help students to practice talking about how they felt when certain things happen to them.
 
Here you will find parts of speech ESL worksheets, games and activities about adjectives of opinion that help teach students words that describe thoughts and feelings about somebody or something.
 
This page provides parts of speech worksheets, games and activities that help students learn and practice adjectives of quantity and their use with nouns and pronouns.
 
The parts of speech ESL activities, games and worksheets on this page help to develop students' knowledge of adjectives and their opposites.
 
On this page, you will find parts of speech games, activities and worksheets to help students learn and practice the order of adjectives. The resources also help to teach students about adjectives of opinion, size, shape, age, colour, origin, material and purpose.
 
This page provides you with adjective-preposition collocation games, worksheets and activities to help students learn and practice adjectives and prepositions that go together.
 
Here you will find parts of speech games, worksheets and ESL activities about -ed and -ing adjectives. These resources help to teach students how to use and understand the difference between adjectives that end with -ed or -ing.
 
Here you can find ESL activities and games about adverb-adjective collocations that help to teach your students adverbs and adjectives that go together to make collocations.
 
This page provides ESL worksheets, games and activities about adverb order that help students learn and practice the correct position of adverbs in sentences.
 
On this page, you will find parts of speech ESL worksheets, games and activities about adverbs of affirmation and negation. These resources help students to learn and practice adverbs that affirm a sentence is true or positive, or false or negative.
 
This page provides parts of speech worksheets, games and activities about adverbs of degree. These resources help to demonstrate to students how adverbs of degree are used to tell us about the intensity of something and how they modify verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
 
These parts of speech games, activities and worksheets help to teach your students about adverbs and expressions of frequency. Students can learn how to ask How often do you questions and answer with frequency adverbs. There are also activities to practice adverbs of frequency together with the present simple.
 
These engaging parts of speech activities, games and worksheets help your students to learn about adverbs of manner. You will find a wealth of resources to help your students associate verbs with manner adverbs as well as practice using adverbs of manner to discuss a variety of topics.
 
This page contains parts of speech activities, games and worksheets to teach your students adverbs of place. The resources cover a range of common place adverbs to explain where things happen.
 
Here you will find parts of speech worksheets and activities to help teach your students adverbs of time. There are resources to learn definite and indefinite time adverbs related to points of time, relationships in time and frequency.
 
On this page, you will find parts of speech teaching activities, games and worksheets to help students learn how to use articles (a, an, the, and no article) correctly with nouns and in sentences. You will also find resources to help students differentiate between definite and indefinite articles.
 
Here you will find parts of speech worksheets and activities to help you teach causative verbs. The resources help students learn the causative verbs: have, make, get, let and help, and how they are used to indicate that one person causes another person to do something for them.
 
These insightful parts of speech ESL worksheets, games and activities help to teach students common collective nouns and how to use them.
 
The parts of speech games and activities on this page focus on common and proper nouns. These resources help students identify common from proper nouns and help to illustrate the difference between these two types of noun.
 
These rewarding parts of speech ESL games, activities and worksheets help to teach students about compound adjectives. The resources also demonstrate to students how to combine two or more adjectives together to modify a noun.
 
In this section, you will find parts of speech games and ESL activities about compound nouns. These engaging activities help boost students' vocabulary knowledge by combining compound elements together to form nouns.
 
This page contains parts of speech ESL games, worksheets and activities about concrete nouns that help teach students nouns that you can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste.
 
These rewarding parts of speech games, activities and worksheets help teach students about conjunctions. There are resources to help students learn and practice both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and how they are used.
 
These enjoyable parts of speech games, activities and worksheets help to teach students about countable and uncountable nouns and their use with quantifiers.
 
Here you will find rewarding parts of speech ESL games and activities to help you teach demonstrative adjectives. These resources cover the adjective forms of this, these, that, and those.
 
On this page, you will find parts of speech worksheets and activities about demonstrative pronouns. The resources help students learn and practice how to use the pronouns: this, that, these and those.
 
Here you will find fun parts of speech ESL activities, games and worksheets about dependent prepositions. These resources help students to learn and practice verb + preposition, adjective + preposition and noun + preposition combinations both individually and together.
 
The parts of speech ESL activities, worksheets and games on this page focus on indefinite pronouns. These resources help to teach students how to refer to non-specific people, places or things, such as anybody, anyone, anything, anywhere, everybody, everything, everywhere, nothing, someone, something, somewhere, etc.
 
Here you will find parts of speech worksheets and activities about intensifiers and mitigators. These resources help students learn how to use mitigators and intensifiers to emphasize words and expressions to make them weaker or stronger.
 
On this page, there are parts of speech worksheets and activities about interjections that help teach students words that show feelings and emotions in an abrupt and exclamatory way.
 
This page provides a variety of entertaining parts of speech ESL activities, games and worksheets to help you teach your students the modal verbs of ability can, can't, could, couldn't, and forms of be able to. Students can also learn how to ask and answer questions about past and present abilities and take part in mind-body coordination tasks, body teasers and fun speaking exercises to prove their abilities.
 
On this page, you will find an engaging set of activities, games and worksheets to help teach your students how to speculate and make deductions in the past and present with the modal verbs: could, might, can't and must.
 
On this page, you will find a variety of engaging parts of speech games and activities to help teach your students how to express past and present necessity with the modal verbs: must, mustn't, need, needn't, have to and have got to.
 
Here you will find a wide range of parts of speech activities, games and worksheets to help students learn how to express obligation and prohibition with modal verbs and other expressions. There are activities to teach students how to talk about past and present obligation with must, should and the various forms of have to. Students can also practice expressing prohibition with the modal verbs mustn't, shouldn't, and can't.
 
The parts of speech teaching activities on this page help students express possibility and certainty. There are games, worksheets and activities to help students practice the modal verbs of possibility: may, might and could. Students can also learn how to express certainty with must. The page also contains mixed modal activities that cover possibility, adverbs of probability and predictions.
 
Here you will find onomatopoeia games, worksheets and activities that help students learn and practice words that imitate sounds made by a person, an animal or a thing.
 
This page provides ESL games, worksheets and activities about parts of speech that help to teach students how to identify word classes, understand their functions and use words correctly in sentences.
 
In this section, you will find parts of speech ESL activities, games and worksheets about phrasal verbs. These fun resources help students learn a wide variety of phrasal verbs, such as phrasal verbs with get, go, come, take, up, work-related phrasal verbs, three-part phrasal verbs, etc. There are also materials to help students understand the meanings of many common phrasal verbs used in English.
 
These impressive parts of speech resources help to teach students about possessive adjectives, pronouns and nouns. There are guessing games, memory games, true or false games and matching games to practice expressing possession. You will also find creative worksheets and fun speaking activities to help students master possessives.
 
These engaging parts of speech games, activities and worksheets about prefixes boost your students' vocabulary knowledge and help them understand the meanings of prefixes and how to use them to form words.
 
On this page, you will find parts of speech games and activities to help teach students about prepositions of movement.
 
Here you will find parts of speech ESL activities, games and worksheets for prepositions of place. These resources help to teach students how to describe the location of objects and explain where places are located. There are also materials for asking and answering questions with place prepositions.
 
These parts of speech ESL games, activities and worksheets cover prepositions of time, time expressions and prepositional time phrases. The resources help students to learn various time prepositions and how to identify prepositions of time for a range of time expressions.
 
Here you will find parts of speech ESL worksheets and activities to help you teach your students proper adjectives that relate to countries, cities and geographical areas, such as continents, mountain ranges, etc.
 
On this page, there are parts of speech activities, games and worksheets to help teach students quantifiers and their use with countable and uncountable nouns. These resources also enable students to learn the grammatical rules associated with quantifiers. There are also fun activities to help students practice making statements and asking and answering questions with quantity expressions.
 
On this page, there are parts of speech activities and games related to reflexive pronouns. These resources help students learn and practice how to use myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves and themselves.
 
Here are some engaging parts of speech ESL games and activities about sense verbs and adjectives. These resources help teach students how to talk about the five senses and describe sensations.
 
In this section, you will find parts of speech games, activities and worksheets for singular and plural nouns. These resources help students to learn how to make singular nouns plural and spell the plural forms correctly.
 
Here you will find parts of speech worksheets and games to help students learn and practice how to use so and such.
 
On this page, you will find parts of speech resources to help teach students how to use subject and object pronouns. There are activities to practice replacing words in sentences with suitable subject or object pronouns as well as fun games to practice using the two types of pronoun.
 
These parts of speech games and ESL activities on suffixes help to develop your students' vocabulary knowledge. These resources also help students understand the meanings of suffixes and how to use them to form words.
 
This page offers ESL activities, worksheets and games to help teach students how to use too and enough in positive and negative statements and questions to indicate degree or amount.
 
Here are parts of speech worksheets to help teach students about transition words. The resources help to illustrate how to use transition words to link ideas together to show emphasis, addition, contrast, comparison, cause, effect, order, illustration, summary, reason, condition, concession and generalization.
 
Here you will find ESL activities and games on verb-noun collocations that help teach students verbs and nouns that go together to form collocations and how to use them in sentences.
 
These entertaining parts of speech ESL activities, games and worksheets help teach students common verbs and their meanings.
 

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