Grammer - Nouns / Adj / Verbs

person, place or idea

“The soldier showed courage.”

soldier = person

courage = idea

nouns

action or state of being

“The unit marches daily.”

marches = an action

“The soldier showed courage.”
showed = an action

verbs

describes a noun

“The mission was dangerous.”

dangerous describes the mission

adjectives

describes the verb or adjective

“He moved quickly.”

ex. quickly = describes how he moves

adverbs

1. Identify part of speech

2. replace word with synonym

3. eliminate wrong answers

4. use context clues

AFCT Strategy

Practice Question:

“The soldier gave a terse response.”

Terse is an adjective, what does terse mean?

brief

Practice Question:

“The plan was flawed due to a hidden kink.”

Kink is a noun, what does kink mean?

flaw

identify pattern:

a / the

“He goes to throw away a banana quickly, and the apple that is red.”

noun - the apple / a banana (thing / person)

identify pattern:

to

“He goes to throw away a banana quickly, and the apple that is red.”

verb - to throw (action)

identify pattern:

is

“He goes to throw away a banana quickly, and the apple that is red.”

adjective - is red (describes)