What part of speech is each of the words in italics?
- Muslims fast in the month of Ramzan.
- He is the right man in the right place.
- There is not much truth in what he says.
- His theories are hard to understand.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- Still waters run deep.
- What annoys me most is his obstinacy.
- As he was ambitious, I felt that I shouldn’t trust him.
- He is like his father.
- Do not talk like that.
- The next moment he was dead.
- He has been ill since yesterday.
- They are all waiting for you.
- It has been raining since yesterday.
- Age brings wisdom.
Answers
- Fast: verb
- Right: adjective (modifies the noun place)
- Truth: abstract noun
- Hard: adjective (complement of the noun theories)
- Dangerous: adjective (modifies the noun thing)
- Waters: noun
- Annoys: verb
- Trust: verb
- Like: preposition
- That: demonstrative pronoun
- Next: adjective
- Since: preposition
- Waiting: verb
- Since: preposition
- Age: abstract noun
