Sports Phrases And Slang

noun a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality

verb a word that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being

adverb a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it)

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence

article a word that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

• Please accelerate the vehicle to a higher speed.
• Hey, can you step on it? We're running late!
• Dude, you gotta step on it if you want to make it in time.
• If you want to succeed in this project, you need to really step on it and put in the extra effort.