Grammar 101 Parts of Speech are not Set in Stone Cheat sheet

Here’s a handy cheat sheet to help you remember how to work out which part of speech a word is taking in a sentence.

I’ve written a longer article about this. You can read it here: Parts of Speech are not Set in Stone.

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