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Part of Speech Exercise 1 http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-parts-ofspeech.php 1. You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect to be successful at something. (pronoun) 2. We left for the mountain just before six in the morning. (verb) 3. We first went to the store to buy a few things. (preposition) 4. We had a breakfast at a café near the rail station. (noun) 5. My friend wasn't strong enough to lift his heavy rucksack. (adjective) 6. I helped him carry it. (pronoun) 7. The weather was very cold. (adverb) 8. My friend said, "Oh! What a cold weather!" (interjection) 9. We didn't spend the night there. (adverb) 10. We got back home late at night but we didn't go to sleep immediately. We were very hungry. (conjunction)



Exercise 2 http://www.really-learn-english.com/english-parts-of-speech-exercise-02.html 1. Remember to drive safely. Part of speech: adverb 2. Don't talk like that. Part of speech: verb 3. Sally and Tom are coming back soon. Part of speech: noun 4. This is a pretty vase. Part of speech: adjective 5. Let's do it. Part of speech: pronoun 6. The cat is on the table. Part of speech: preposition 7. Oh, I didn't know that. Part of speech: interjection 8. Do you want to go out or stay home? Part of speech: conjunction 9. New York is a big city. Part of speech: noun 10. I want the blue ball. Part of speech: adjective 11. We finished it yesterday. Part of speech: adverb 12. What am I going to do without you? Part of speech: pronoun 13. He will come. Part of speech: verb 14. Wow, those are great news! Part of speech: interjection



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speech: conjunction 16. They went into the hall. Part of speech: preposition Exercise 3 http://www.towson.edu/ows/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/exercisepos2.htm 1. The weather was quite warm, so we walked lazily along the shady path near an old cemetery in the countryside. The = determiner



lazily = adverb



cemetery = noun



weather = noun



along = preposition



in = preposition



was = verb



the = determiner



the = determiner



quite = qualifier



shady = adjective



countryside = noun



warm = adjective



path = noun



so = conjunction



near = preposition



we = pronoun



an = determiner



walked = verb



old = adjective



2.



While Josephine was nonchalantly eating her huge sandwich, we



numbly watched a sly cat as it climbed almost imperceptibly onto the ledge by the sofa and rather greedily eyed a poor little mouse under the chair. While = conjunction



a = determiner



the = determiner



Josephine = noun



sly = adjective



sofa = noun



was eating = verb



cat = noun



and = conjunction



as = conjunction



rather = qualifier



her = pronoun



it = pronoun



greedily = adverb



huge = adjective



climbed = verb



eyed = verb



sandwich = noun



almost = qualifier



a = determiner



nonchalantly = adverb



we = pronoun numbly = adverb



imperceptibly = adverb onto = preposition



poor = adjective little = adjective



watched = verb



the = determiner



mouse = noun



While = conjunction



ledge = noun



under = preposition



Josephine = noun



by = preposition



the = determiner