This document defines and provides examples of several parts of speech including prepositions, modal auxiliaries, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and adjectives. Prepositions link words in a sentence, modal auxiliaries express mood or tense when used with verbs, adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, clauses and other adverbs, prepositional phrases function as adjective or adverb phrases, and adjectives modify nouns to denote qualities or distinguish things.
This document defines and provides examples of several parts of speech including prepositions, modal auxiliaries, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and adjectives. Prepositions link words in a sentence, modal auxiliaries express mood or tense when used with verbs, adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, clauses and other adverbs, prepositional phrases function as adjective or adverb phrases, and adjectives modify nouns to denote qualities or distinguish things.
This document defines and provides examples of several parts of speech including prepositions, modal auxiliaries, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and adjectives. Prepositions link words in a sentence, modal auxiliaries express mood or tense when used with verbs, adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, clauses and other adverbs, prepositional phrases function as adjective or adverb phrases, and adjectives modify nouns to denote qualities or distinguish things.
link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a
sentence. of, to, for, with, on and at, are prepositions
Modal auxiliary-modal auxiliary is a verb that is used with
another verb to express a mood or tense. Examples of a modal auxiliary include can, may, must, ought, shall, should, will and would. adverb is a word that is used to change, modify or qualify several types of words including an adjective, a verb, a clause, another adverb,
Truthfully: She truthfully answered the police officer's questions.
Prepositional phrases-can function as either adjective phrases or
adverb phrases to modify other words in a sentence. Common prepositional phrase examples include about, after, at, before, behind, by, during, for, from, in, of, over, past, to, under, up, and with.
Adjective-
a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the
thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something elseThe word red in "the red car" is an adjective.