Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb?

Take a look at the the following examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, subjects and objects:

"Joe ate his banana." - noun

"They ran all the way home." - verb

"You are a pretty girl." - adjective

"He quietly opened the door." - adverb

"The spider ran across the table." - preposition

"Paper is made from wood." - subject

"Leonard da Vinci painted 'The Last Supper'." - object

Note: The subject is usually the word that does something; whereas, the object is the word receiving what is done. A noun can be also be a subject and an object.

Now read through the ten sentences and decide what each key word is:

Link: Parts of speech

• Chess is a FAVOURITE hobby of mine.
  
  verb
  adverb
  noun
  preposition
  adjective
  
  
• She suffers a lot from BOREDOM when it rains.
  
  preposition
  adjective
  noun
  adverb
  verb
  
  
• That boy can swim FAST.
  
  noun
  verb
  adverb
  preposition
  adjective
  
  
• He often FORGETS his homework.
  
  noun
  verb
  adjective
  adverb
  preposition
  
  
• They went to bed WITHOUT dinner.
  
  preposition
  verb
  adverb
  adjective
  noun
  
  
• During the test, PETER wrote a lot.
  
  object
  subject
  
  
• The GOALKEEPER saved the penalty.
  
  subject
  object
  
  
• Susan grabbed her JACKET.
  
  subject
  object
  
  
• Do you love HIM?
  
  object
  subject
  
  
• The cat is WHITE.
  
  adjective
  verb
  adverb
  noun
  preposition