Word Salad

This game will help you practice your understanding of the difference between a noun, an adjective, a verb and an adverb. We'll start with a few questions before building a sentence with the words you have looked at. You can click on the circlular arrow to come back to this page during the quiz.

Click here to start the quiz.

If you need a bit of revision before you begin, here is a reminder of the basics...

A noun is a person, place, or thing.
An adjective is a describing word. Adjectives are used to describe nouns.
A verb is a an action word! Verbs are used to describe things that nouns do.
An adverb is a word that describes a verb.

Can you see where the noun is, where the adjective is and where the verb is in the following sentence?

The black cat runs quickly.

(noun)cat  (adj)black   (verb)runs  (adv)quickly