1. What’s on the Menu
Parts of Speech

2. Nouns Homemade Breadsticks $3.75 Noun Questions: Who? What?
For the purpose of our menu we will ask what.
Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Five generously-sized breadsticks brushed lightly with butter and sprinkled with garlic.
Five generously-sized what?
Brushed lightly with what?
Sprinkled with what?

3. Verbs Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Verb Question: What is being said about
Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Five generously-sized breadsticks brushed lightly with butter and sprinkled with garlic.
What is being said about the breadsticks?

4. Adjectives Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Adjective Question: Which one? What kind? How many?
These questions are asked about the noun.
Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Five generously-sized breadsticks brushed lightly with butter and sprinkled with garlic.
What kind of breadsticks?
How many breadsticks?

5. Adverb
Adverb Questions: How? When? Where?
These questions are asked about a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Five generously-sized breadsticks brushed lightly with butter and sprinkled with garlic.
Brushed how?

6. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Preposition Questions: What? Whom?
A preposition connects a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence. A preposition must be followed by a noun. The prepositional phrase is all the words from the preposition to the noun it connects.
Homemade Breadsticks $3.75
Five generously-sized breadsticks brushed lightly with butter and sprinkled with garlic.
With what?

7. Menu Assignment Choose one of the restaurant menus. Underline 5 nouns
Circle 3 adjectives
Put a box around 1 verb
Put a triangle around 1 adverb
Put parenthesis around 1 prepositional phrase
*Note: If your menu does not have one of the required parts of speech write a sentence on your menu or on a separate sheet of paper using that part of speech. Be sure your sentence is about an item on the menu and label the part of speech according to the directions above.