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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

A new parts of speech question

Hi can some please review my answers to the following question, and amend where necessary.

Look at this sentence carefully:

He breathed deeply with sheer delight, splashed noisily from the little island, and ran off whistling in the pelting rain.

Now name three of each of the following parts of speech: (my answers in brackets in red font)

  1. Verbs (breathed, splashed, ran, whistling)

  2. Nouns (delight, island, rain)

  3. Adjectives (little, sheer, pelting)

  4. Adverbs (deeply, noisiliy, off) - not sure about "off"

  5. Prepositions (with, from, in)
  

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Hi, can some please review my answers to the following question, and amend where necessary. Look at this sentence carefully: He breathed deeply with sheer delight, splashed noisily from the little island, and ran off whistling in the pelting rain . Now name three of each of the following parts of speech: (my answers in brackets in red font) Verbs ( breathed, splashed, ran, whistling ) Nouns ( delight, island, rain ) Adjectives ( little, sheer, pelting ) Adverbs ( deeply, noisiliy, off ) - not sure about "off" 'Off' can be used as an adverb and as a preposition, but here it's used as an adverb.

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Hi,

can some please review my answers to the following question, and amend where necessary.

Look at this sentence carefully:

He breathed deeply with sheer delight, splashed noisily from the little island, and ran off whistling in the pelting rain.

Now name three of each of the following parts of
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