Learn English – Identifying verb types, nouns, adjectives and adverbs in a sentence – 5th grade

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While helping my son, who happens to be in the 5th grade, with his English grammar, I have realized that I am confused. The following sentence, that I gave him as an exercise, he has identified the components i.e. verbs/verb-types, adverbs, adjectives and nouns as follows:

Sentence: "Jack is going to have a car of his own."

Identification of grammatical parts:

  • Jack – Proper noun
  • is – Being verb
  • going to – Action verb
  • have – Possession verb
  • a – article (not taught yet, my identification)
  • car – common noun
  • of – prepositions (not taught yet, my identification)
  • his – pronoun
  • own – adjective

Is the above correct identification ? My main doubts are about the verbs and verb types, since I believe that contrary to how my son has been taught to identify verb types, some of the types change contextually, and some of the verbs are contextually adverbs.

Best Answer

I would parse the sentence like this:

  • Jack - noun (subject)
  • is going - present progressive verb
  • to have - infinite (functioning as an adverb modifying "is going")
  • a car - object of infinitive
  • of his own - prepositional phrase (functioning as an adjective modifying car)
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