2 Identifying the part of speech is helpful in working out the meaning of a word. Study the way the academic words in bold are used in the examples and write the correct part of speech, noun (N), verb (Vb), adjective (Adj) or adverb (Adv) for each one. 4 compared with previous generations ......... 5 Results revealed that... 8 3... in two rural and two urban locations......... 2 The present study was conducted... 1 The walking school bus concept originated in 1998.