English Exercises
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EXERCISE – 1
Name the part of speech of each italicized wording the following sen-tences, giving in each case your reason for the classification :-
- Still waters run deep.
- He still lives in that house.
- After the storm comes the calm.
- The after effects of the drug are bad.
- The up train is late.
- It weighs about a pound.
- He told us all about the battle.
- He was only a yard off me.
- Suddenly one of the wheels came off.
- Muslims fast in the month of Ramzan.
- He kept the fast for a week.
- He is one the committee.
- Let us move on.
- Sit down and rest a while.
- I will watch while you sleep.
- They while away their evenings with books and games.
EXERCISE – 1 Answers
- Adjective – adds something to the meaning of the noun ‘waters’.
- Adverb – adds something to the meaning to the verb ‘lives’.
- Preposition – shows the relation between ‘storm’and ‘comes’.
- Adjective – adds something to the meaning of the noun ‘effects’.
- Adjective – adds something to the meaning of the noun ‘train’.
- Adverb- adds something to the meaning of the verb ‘weigh’.
- Preposition – shows the relation between ‘all’and ‘battle’.
- Preposition – shows the relation between ‘yard’and ‘me’.
- Adverb – adds something to the meaning of the verb ‘came’.
- Verb – says something about ‘Muslims’.
- Noun – the name of something.
- Preposition – shows the relation between ‘is’and ‘committee’.
- Adverb – adds something to the meaning of the verb ‘moves’.
- Noun – the name of something.
- Conjunction – joins the two parts ‘I will watch’and ‘you sleep’.
- Verb – says something about ‘they’.
