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    The document defines different parts of speech including nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and prepositions. Nouns refer to people, objects, and ideas and function as subjects or objects of verbs. Adjectives describe nouns, adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, and pronouns are used in place of nouns. Prepositions show where, when, how, and why in relation to nouns. Examples are also given of active and passive voice sentences.

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    Parts of Speech: Sentences in Active and Passive Voice

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    Parts of Speech

    2. Noun

    A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events, ideas and feelings. A
    noun functions as a subject or object of a verb and can be modified by an adjective.

    John, lion, table, freedom, love ...

    3. Adjective

    Adjectives are used to describe or specify a noun or pronoun

    good, beautiful, nice, my ...

    4. Adverb

    An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective and other adverbs.

    completely, never, there ...

    5. Pronoun

    A pronoun is used in the place of a noun or phrase.

    I, you, he, she, it ...

    6. Preposition

    Prepositions are used before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when, how and why

    Sentences in Active and Passive Voice


    Here are examples of sentences written in both the active voice and the passive voice, with the active
    voice sentence appearing first:

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