The features of the word that are embedded in the word ending can give important clues to proper usage. Word endings signify the part of speech of a word (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or other ...

In each item below, the incomplete words require the same word root to form a family of words that differ according to their part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). For each family of words, ...

A part of speech is a way of categorising words by their grammatical function. In English there are eight parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, pronoun and ...