Words with More than One Job and Parts of Speech Quiz
Many words in English can have more than one job, or be more than one part of speech. For example, "work" can be a verb and a noun; "but" can be a conjunction and a preposition; "well" can be an adjective, an adverb and an interjection. In addition, many nouns can act as adjectives.
To analyze the part of speech, ask yourself: "What job is this word doing in this sentence?"
In the table below you can see a few examples. Of course, there are more, even for some of the words in the table. In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word but has six jobs to do:
- verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction!
| word | part of speech | example |
| work | noun | My work is easy. |
| verb | I work in London. | |
| but | conjunction | John came but Mary didn't come. |
| preposition | Everyone came but Mary. | |
| well | adjective | Are you well? |
| adverb | She speaks well. | |
| interjection | Well! That's expensive! | |
| afternoon | noun | We ate in the afternoon. |
| noun acting as adjective | We had afternoon tea. |
| 1 | I bought a beautiful dress at the mall. | |
| 2 | What did she ask you to do? | |
| 3 | I left my shoes under the kitchen table. | |
| 4 | If we finish our work quickly we can go to the movies. | |
| 5 | On Saturdays I work from nine to five. | |
| 6 | I want to go to a university in the United States. | |
| 7 | I'm sure I have met your girlfriend before. | |
| 8 | Well, I don't think I will be here to answer the phone. | |
| 9 | Andy knocked on the door but nobody answered. | |
| 10 | After lunch let's go out for a coffee. |
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