Match nouns to persons, places, or things. A "thing" can be a tangible object, like a pencil, or an abstract concept, like justice. Proper nouns refer to formal descriptions like names of people, cities, countries or books, and they are typically capitalized.
Match article to words like "a," "an" and "the" that come before a noun or noun phrase in a sentence. In the example, "They wanted a house with a big porch," you see that the article precedes the nouns "house" and "porch."
Identify pronouns by their function of referring to people. They are related to articles in that they replace articles in a sentence, as in "She decided to go to a movie." "She" is the pronoun; "a" of course is the article. Other pronouns include subject pronouns like "they," "we," "he," etc. and object pronouns such as "you," "him," and "her."
Pair verbs with words that signify action or a state of being. Verbs are many and varied; "run," "jump," "be" and "feel" are all verbs. Many sentences have multiple verbs or verb phrases, such as "is writing." In the latter example, both "is" and "writing" are verbs.
Match adjectives with words that describe or modify a noun or pronoun. Sometimes adjectives come before nouns; at other times, they follow a form of the verb "to be."
Consider the example "I am healthy, but I was tired after the run." This example contains two adjectives, "healthy" and "tired."