Q&A for How to Identify Parts of Speech

"Has" is a verb because it expresses an action. Depending on the sentence it is used in, it may be a main verb (He has the flu) or an auxiliary verb (She has traveled to Spain), but either way, it is still a verb.

Articles (a, an, and the) are considered by some to be adjectives because they modify nouns. Other people consider articles to be a completely separate part of speech.

"Spring" is an adjective because it modifies the noun "flowers."

"Asking" is a noun (a "gerund"); "questions" is a noun; ("asking questions" is a noun phrase that is the subject of the sentence); "is" is a verb; "easier" is an adjective; "than" is a conjunction; "answering" is a noun; "them" is a pronoun.

I = pronoun, receive = verb, calls = noun, throughout = preposition, the = article (which some consider an adjective), day = noun

"Sandy" is a proper noun. "Sandy's" is used as a modifying adjective. "ideas" is a noun and the subject of the sentence. "are" is a verb. "not" is an adverb modifying "are." "really" is an adverb modifying "conservative," which is an adjective.

"Home work" (or "homework") is a noun.

It is an adverb.

First = adjective or adverb, depending on context; Probably = adverb; Important = adjective; Technologies = noun; Human = noun; Focus = noun or verb, depending on context; Analytical = adjective; Study = noun or verb, depending on context; Science = noun; Speculation = noun

"Sick" is a predicate adjective. It's part of the predicate, modifying the subject through a verb.

Noun.

"Question" is a noun that is part of the sentence's predicate.

"Help" is commonly a verb. Here it is part of a verb phrase. This is an imperative sentence (a command). It's diagrammed with an understood "you" as the subject, "help preserve" as the verb phrase, and "Earth" as the direct object.

"Defraud" is a verb.

There's no noun. "I" is a pronoun, "am" is a verb, and "hungry" is a predicate adjective.

It is both a noun and a verb, depending on the context. As a noun, it would be like: the crash was caused by too much speed. As a verb, it would be: he liked to speed through the neighborhood.

Yes.

"This" is a noun and the subject of the sentence; "deprive" is a verb, and "will" is an auxiliary or "helping" verb; "your" is an adjective; "body" is a noun and the direct object of "deprive"; "of" is a preposition; "vital" is an adjective; "energy" is a noun used as a modifying adjective; "needs" is a noun and the object of the preposition "of."

It is called an auxiliary (or "helping") verb. It helps the verb "go" and -- by extension -- the verb "see."

"Game" is a noun and the direct object of "played."

It's hard to say without seeing these words in a sentence."Like" can be a verb, a noun, an adjective, a preposition, or an adverb. "To" is a preposition or part of an infinitive verb. "Movies" is a noun. If the sentence is "I like to go to the movies," "like" is a verb, "to" is first a part of the infinitive "to go" and then a preposition, and "movies" is a noun.

"They" is a pronoun. "Health" can be thought of as an adjective modifying "care," but it's really part of a two-word noun phrase. "Lack" is a verb. "Drinking" is also part of a two-word noun phrase that could be considered an adjective modifying "water."

Yes, because "autobiography" is what "was." (Look for a sentence's verb. The subject is who or what is performing the "action" -- or in this case the "being" -- of the verb.)

That's a rather complicated subject. One way to classify verbs is as "normal" ("lexical") or "auxiliary" ("helping"). We can also classify verbs by voice (active and passive) and by tense. Present, past and future are the main tenses, which can be subdivided into "perfect" or "progressive" ("continuous"). Linguists have thought of many other ways to classify verbs, such as "transitive" or "intransitive" and "dynamic" or "stative." There are quite a few other lesser-known classifications.

"Think" is a verb.

It's an adjective, because it modifies the noun "areas."

"A" is an indefinite article.

The second "do" is the main verb. The first "do" is a helping verb. Here's how that sentence is diagrammed: "you" is the subject, "do do" is the verb, and "how" is an adverb modifying the verb.

"At all" is a prepositional phrase used to modify "know."

Here "disobeying" is a gerund, because it is acting as a noun, the object of the preposition "at." (It's more grammatically correct to write "at the child's disobeying," or even better, "at the child's disobedience.")