Exercise 04: Parts of Speech

Find the parts of speech of the bold words in the following sentences —

Drinking and driving is a major cause of accidents.
Either of the roads leads to the park.
Every boy and every girl was given a packet of sweet.
Gowri told me his name after he had left.
Grapes cannot be gathered from thistles.
He walks ten miles on foot and rides a mile on a horse.
His son is working very hard.
I had worked very hard on this project but my boss was not
I know the doctor you are referring to.
I think he owns an expensive painting by Hussain.
Mighty Caeser has fallen.
One who secretly listens to the talk of others is called an eavesdropper.
Ten kilometers is a long distance to walk.
The earth moves round the sun, doesn’t it?
The more you read the more you learn.
The old man of Latur said, “Alas, my only son is dead!”
The spectators said, “Bravo! Well done players.”
There are no poems in my book.
Time and tide wait for none.
Very soon I realised that he is at fault.

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