Name the part of speech of each italicized word in the following sentences.

1. He still lives in that country.

2. She spoke very fluently.

Fill in the blanks with words of the appropriate part of speech.

1.    She is ————— beautiful.

a)    ravishing
b)    ravishingly
c)    ravished
d)    ravish

2.    I was ——————– surprised.

What part of speech is the word or phrase given in bold letters?

1. He fasted for a week.

a) Adjective
b) Verb
c) Adverb
d) Preposition

Adverb

An adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Examples are: slowly, fast, kindly, afternoon, today, now and then.

There are tens of thousands of words in English, but not all words do the same job. While some words join other words together, some others express action. Some words are the names of people and things and some words tell us how something happens. Sentences are built using these different kinds of words. These words are the different parts of speech.