FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley - Grammar and Style
EXERCISE 1
PARTS OF SPEECH

Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences. Label the underlined words:
v = Verb
n = Noun
adj - adjective
adv - adverb
prep - preposition
pron = pronoun
int - interjection
conj = conjunction

2. We watched the rapid progress of the traveler with our telescopes, until
he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.

Identify Which part of Speech is…..among?

3. Even broken in spirit as he is no one can feel more deeply than he does
the beauties of nature.

Identify Which part of Speech is…..no one?

4. My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their
single offspring.

Identify Which part of Speech is…..offspring?

7. No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself.

Identify Which part of Speech is…..myself?

8. Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was
in the greatest danger.

Identify Which part of Speech is…..greatest?

10. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

Identify Which part of Speech is…..cause?

13. The thunder ceased, but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness.
Identify Which part of Speech is….. Still?