English VI: Exercise 2 - Parts of the English Speech

República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Universidad Nacional Experimental Marítima del Caribe
English VII, FG-701 – Prof. Francisco Javier Salinas Bello

Identify the parts of the English speech underlining with colors. Circle verb tenses.

Nouns: blue (proper, common, countable, uncountable)
Articles: orange (definitive and indefinitive)
Personal Pronouns: red
Object Pronouns:pink
Adjectives: green
(Possessive, Demonstrative, Comparative, Superlative, Interrogative, Indefintive)
Adverbs: purple
Circle Verbs tenses

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