Can someone please help me with my english homework? I need to find what part of speech each number is! Thank You!

Question

The INDIANS(1) who LIVED(2) ON(3) the ISLAND(4) IN(5) the CARIBBEAN SEA(6) before the ARRIVAL(7) of the white men were WELL(8) acquainted WITH(9) the GREAT(10) CYCLONIC(11) STORM(12) THAT(13) AROSE (14) FREQUENTLY(15) in that AREA(16). THEY (17) CALLED(18) THESE(19) storms “hurricans” an INDIAN(20) word meaning “EVIL(21) spirits”. The early SPANISH(22) explorer ADOPTED (23) the indian TERM(24) WHICH (25) has NOW(26) become the WORD(26) “hurricane”.

AS(28) EVERYONE(29) on the ATLANTIC COAST(30) KNOWS(31), a HURRICANE(32) is a DANGEROUS (33) storm with RAIN-HEARING (34) WINDS(35) whirling ABOUT(36) a CENTER(37) AT(38) SPEEDS(39) in excess OF(40) SEVENTYFIVE(41) miles per hour.

Answer 1

I'm not positive on all of these but they are my best guess.

 

First, there are nouns.  Nouns refer to a person, place, idea, or thing.  The nouns in this passage are:

 

(1) Indians: refers to a group of people

(4) Island: refers to a place

(6) Caribbean Sea: refers to a place

(12) storm: refers to a thing

(24) term: refers to a thing/idea

(27) word

(29) everyone: refers to a group of people

(30) Atlantic Coast: refers to a place

(32) hurricane: refers to a thing

(35) winds: refers to a thing

 

Next, there are verbs.  They refer to actions.  The verbs in this passage are:

 

(2): lived

(7): arrival

(14): arose

(18): called

(23): adopted

(31): knows

 

Adjectives describe a noun. For example, in the sentence "The big brown dog ran to the house" dog would be the noun, and the words big and brown would describe that noun.  The adjectives in your passage are:

 

(10) great: describes the noun storm

(11) cyclonic: describes the noun storm

(21) evil: describes the noun spirits

(22) Spanish: describes the noun explorer

(33) dangerous: describes the noun storm

(34) rain hearing: describes the noun winds

 

Adverbs describe verbs.  The adverbs in this passage are:

 

(8) well

(15) frequently

(20) Indian

(26) now

(36) about

 

Determiners specify what nouns you are referring to. Some examples of determiners are a/an, the, two, some, or many. In this passage, the determiners are:

 

(19) these

 

 

Pronouns replace nouns.  Some examples of pronounce are I, you, he, she, or some. In this passage, the pronouns are:

 

(17) they

 

Prepositions:

 

(3) on

(5) in

(9) with

(13) that

(25) which

(28) as

(38) at

(40) of