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To construct a grammatically and semantically complete sentence in English, mastering parts of speech is crucial. Let's review the basic types of words along with their positions and functions in sentences. Let's 'tidy up' the part of speech section in exams together. Let's explore how to do parts of speech exercises in English with Mytour (Mytour). 
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Essentially, there are 4 types of words conveying the main meaning in a sentence. They are: Noun, Adjective, Verb, and Adverb.
1. Position and ways of identification
a. Nouns (words that denote people, animals, objects, and phenomena)
- Begin a sentence as the subject
– Đứng sau mạo từ (‘the’, ‘a’, ‘an’), đại từ chỉ định (‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’, those’) và lượng từ (‘all’, ‘a lot of’, ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.)
E.g. The school has just been renovated.
This hat belongs to Ms. Jane.
The company has just fired a lot of employees.
- Follow adjectives or possessive adjectives
E.g. We visited the haunted house last month.
The man standing there is my dad
- Follow verbs as the object
E.g. I play football every day.
- Common structure: enough + N + to V
E.g. I don’t have enough time to hit the gym these days.
b. Adjectives (words used to describe characteristics or qualities of people, objects, or phenomena)
- Precede a noun to modify it
E.g. She is a beautiful girl
(So sánh: She is a girl. Từ ‘beautiful’ xuất hiện nhằm bổ nghĩa cho danh từ ‘girl’- giúp người đọc hình dung được cô gái một cách cụ thể hơn: cô gái xinh đẹp)
- Follow the verb tobe
E.g. He is young.
- After some verbs: look, seem, become, feel, get, etc.
E.g. After a long day at work, she feels tired.
- Commonly encountered structure
+ (Not) Adj sufficiently to V
She is (not) old enough to buy cigarettes
+ Be overly Adj (for sb) to V
The question was too hard for her to answer.
He is too young to drive.
+ Be so Adj that SV
The test was so easy that everyone got a high score.
c. Verbs (words indicating actions or states)
- Follow the subject (verbs must agree with the subject)
E.g. He goes to the best university in the state.
d. Adverbs (words indicating manner or degree, often used to modify verbs or adjectives)
E.g. She runs (verb) quickly
The environment is heavily polluted (adj).
He is extremely talented (adj).
2. methods of doing parts of speech in English
Look ahead and behind the blank to identify the existing and missing elements ⇒ choose the appropriate type of word based on their position and function.
E.g.1. Bell …………………. demonstrated his invention. (success)
Ở câu trên, ta có S (chủ ngữ) là Bell, V (động từ) là demonstrated. Lúc này, ta cần 1 loại từ có thể đi được với động từ, vậy thì đáp án sẽ là trạng từ (vì trạng từ có chức năng cho ta biết cách thức mà ai đó làm 1 việc gì đó)
⇒ Answer: successfully
E.g.2. “The lost shoe” is one of the ……………………..stories I like best. (tradition)
Tương tự, nhìn cả phía trước của ô trống, ta thấy có mạo từ ‘the’, nghĩa là ta cần 1 danh từ đi theo sau. Tuy nhiên, ta đã có danh từ stories sau ô trống, vậy thì ở đây ta chọn tính từ vì nó đứng trước danh từ để bổ nghĩa cho danh từ đó.
⇒ Answer: traditional
E.g.3. Everyone was ……………………….. at the soccer match. (excite)
In this sentence, the blank after the verb 'tobe' should be filled with an adjective.
⇒ Answer: excited.
A small tip is that when learning new words, we should also remember their parts of speech. Then when constructing sentences, we can place words in the correct positions to combine with others to form a complete sentence!
