5D Word Study
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Sometimes there is no way to tell which part of speech a word is
just by looking at it. The only way to know whether it is a noun, a
verb, or an adjective is to look at how the word is used in the
sentence. Here are five examples:
border
limit
average
span
tackle
Read each sentence and decide which part of speech the boldfaces
word is. Write its part of speech, noun, verb, or adjective-on the line
The average age of the members of my class is nine and a
half years.