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How do I identify parts of speech when the sentence is, "I could NEVER do that hard work at my age"?

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Work and age are nouns. I is a pronoun. Could is an auxiliary (helping) verb. Never is an adverb. Do is a verb. That, hard and my are adjectives. At is a preposition.

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In the sentence: "Give them too much water", are "too" and "much" both adverbs?

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"Much" is an adjective modifying "water." "Too" is an adverb modifying "much."

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What part of speech is "bit"?

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"Bit" can be a verb ("the dog bit my hand") or a noun ("I ate every bit of the food").

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What part of speech is rather?

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It's usually an adverb. Occasionally it is known as an "idiom," as in the sentence, "I would rather go home."

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What part of speech is the word "help" in the sentence "Help me plant the flowers"?

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"Help" is a verb in that sentence.

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How do I find the preposition?

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A preposition is usually found between two other words (typically nouns and/or pronouns) and showing a relationship between those two things.

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"The boy was running" - what part of speech is "running"?

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"Running" is a present participle completing the verb phrase "was running."

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What part of speech is "but" when it starts a sentence?

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"But" (in this case) is a conjunction and should not be used to begin a sentence.

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"You will find it if you look for it." In this sentence, what part of speech is "will find"?

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"Will find" is a verb phrase. "Find" is the main verb, and "will" is a helping verb.

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"Add" is which part of speech?

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"Add" is a verb.

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"The cleverness of the cunning fox was no match for the ferocious tiger." What part of speech is "match"?

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"Match" is a noun. It is a predicate nominative renaming (negatively) the subject ("cleverness").

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What part of speech is "tilt"?

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"Tilt" is typically a verb, sometimes a noun.

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What part of speech is "what"?

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"What" is typically a pronoun ("It's what I do") and sometimes an adjective synonymous with "whatever" ("He used what food he could find").

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"We color the walls of the house" - which part of speech is "color"?

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It's a verb.

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Are there any other parts of speech instead of this? And isn't clause there?

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No, this article identifies all the parts of speech. A clause is mentioned above, but it's not a part of speech. A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought (as a sentence does).

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"He is a baseball player." Is "baseball" a noun or adjective?

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Although "baseball" seems to describe "player" (and thus might be thought of as an adjective), what's actually happening is that "baseball player" is a term consisting of two nouns, used here as a predicate nominative renaming the subject "he."

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