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Read the following sentences.
Set \(1\):
1. The young seagull uttered a joyful scream. (adjective)
2. The young seagull screamed with joy. (noun)
3. The young seagull screamed joyfully. (adverb)
Set \(2\):
1. The young bird pretended to be falling asleep. (verb)
2. The young bird made a pretension of falling asleep. (noun)
3. The young bird made a pretentious posture of falling asleep. (adjective)
- Note that in Set \(1\), the adjective ‘joyful’ is changed to its noun form ‘joy’ and to its adverb form ‘joyfully’.
- In Set \(2\), the verb ‘pretend’ has been transformed to its noun form ‘pretension’ and to its adjective form ‘pretentious’.
- We can transform a sentence by interchanging parts of speech without changing its meaning.
Change the parts of speech of the given words in the chart.
Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb |
exhaustion | |||
widen | |||
mad | |||
perfectly |
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