Read the following 10 sentences and decide which parts of speech (noun, adjective, verb, determiner, preposition, etc.) are the words in bold. Write your answers in the space provided.
Example:
The audience displayed little interest in what the speaker was presenting to them.
In this sentence, “little” is a determiner. So, you should write “determiner”.
1. Then I looked back and found myself in that grind, right, of going to work, chasing after the next promotion, or the next, you know, wink from the boss or whatever. It’s just like constant chasing. Little by little, I was slipping into depression (“When a Banker Was Called to the Convent”; https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/episodes/banker-called-to-convent-nun-death-sex-money).
2. They stood in the doorway of the underground for a moment until it was raining hard (Ray Bradbury, “All Summer in a Day”).
3. Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a dog smelling a bird. His eyes were fixed upon Della. There was an expression in them that she could not read, and it frightened her (O. Henry, “The Gift of the Magi”).
4. Henry looks carefully into the telescope which lets him see far, far away, as far away as the distant nebulae on the far edges of the Milky Way. Henry is an astronomer. He looks at the sky, and at stars in particular (Chris Rose, “The Birth of the Star”).
5. As the sciences which we now have do not help us in finding out new works, so neither does the logic which we now have help us in finding out new sciences (Francis Bacon, “The New Organon or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”).
6. The Garden of Eden was supposedly located somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
7. Just a moment of carelessness has cost me dear over the years.
8. “They have spread the seeds of racial hatred that may take generations to remove”, he said (“Trump, Western Media Blamed for Anti-Asian Crimes Spike”. “Global Times”, 18 March 2021).
9. Jayson managed to cure himself of drug addiction.
10. Ouch! I’ve stubbed my toe!