There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part of speech indicates how the word functions in …

For instance, the noun student can be made to modify, or describe, the noun bookstore: the student bookstore. Nouns often combine to produce compound adjectives that modify a noun as a unit, …

An adverb is a word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. An adverb usually modifies by telling how, when, where, why, under what conditions, or to what degree.

A subject complement either renames or describes the subject, and therefore is usually a noun, pronoun, or adjective. Subject complements occur when there is a linking verb within the sentence (often a …

Infinitive phrases are nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. An infinitive is the root, or simple, form of a verb preceded by to: to expect, to enroll, to have thought.

In the table above, the words in the upper row must accompany nouns: her Corvette, our Nissan. The pronouns in the lower row stand alone, as replacements for the adjective + noun pair– " Hers is fast; …

If we wanted to make this expression properly parallel, the two elements that follow "Skiing combines" should be grammatically equivalent: "Skiing combines outdoor fun [adjective-noun] with physical …

Which prepositions go with which verbs in which expressions is often a matter of custom rather than rule. For ESL students in particular, prepositions can be difficult to master.

Because of their noun markers, you could safely guess that roommate, day, evaluation and angst are nouns (even if you didn't know what angst was). Although not all nouns are preceded by markers, you …

Modifiers are words-adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, clauses-that explain, expand, and enrich sentences. Misplaced modifiers are modifiers that need to be moved elsewhere in the sentence to …