![]() ![]() Syntactic is the adjective, and syntactically is the adverb. The study of parts of a sentence is called syntax, which is a noun. State, incidentally, is a verb, because it is something you can do. The above video is from a third-party source. For example, in the sentence A fluffy dog walked past the window., fluffy is the adjective which describes how the dog looks. An adjective is a word that adds description to a noun. ![]() They can range from simple colours and sizes ( the big red shoe, where big and red are both adjectives, because they describe the shoe) to metaphysical statements, like metaphysical, because it describes statement, the noun. A verb is sometimes described as a doing word - this means it depicts an action, such as run, jump, sleep or hide. ![]() It acts like an adverb but to the thing rather than the action. There are eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb. In the phrase he spoke loudly, loudly describes how he spoke, so is an adverb. The parts of speech refer to the way words are classified according to their function in a sentence. Adverbs often end in '-ly', like quickly, furiously, excitedly or dully. A noun is a word that refers to any name, place, thing, feeling, animal or abstract idea. Verbs are important because without them nothing actually happens or changes.Īdverb literally means to the verb, because adverbs describe how the verb is done. If Margaret jumps, then she does a jump, meaning jumps is the verb. The verb describes what the nouns actually do - which is why they are patronisingly called doing-words. You can think of the entire sentence being a tent and nouns are the pegs that keep it firmly stuck to reality. It could be London, Margaret or box - places, people and objects all count as nouns. ![]()
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