Search for...  How to Identify Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs &
Adverbs  by Therese Rochon, Demand Media      It is almost
impossible to write a sentence without a verb or a noun, since
these parts of speech constitute many of the words in the
English language. Adverbs and adjectives modify verbs and nouns
respectively. They give the reader a better description of a
noun, and they let us know more exactly how a verb was
completed. English speakers need to be able to identify the
different parts of speech.      Step 1      Determine whether
the word represents an idea, person, place or thing. If so, then
it is a noun. Words such as "materialism," "George Washington,"
"Spain" or "basket" are nouns, and they respectively describe an
idea, a person, a place and a thing.      Step 2      Check
whether the word describes something. Any word that describes
how old something is, what color it is, what condition it is or
what it looks like is an adjective.      Step 3      See whether
the word represents an action. If so, t