Discussion
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the following sentence :
Have you ever seen a water bird ?
Answer: A
In a water bird, the word water is an adjective.
A part of speech depends on the job a word does in the sentence. Here water stands before the noun bird and tells us what kind of bird it is, a bird that lives on or near water. A word that qualifies a noun in this way is used as an adjective (a noun used attributively).
In a glass of water, water would be a noun, and in water the plants it would be a verb. It is not an adverb, since it does not modify a verb, adjective or adverb.
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