Ice cream (a subject and also a noun)
Ice cream melts. (a verb in the present tense)
Soft ice cream melts. (an adjective that describes ice cream)
The soft ice cream melts. (an article - one of three: a, an, the - that describes soft ice cream)
The soft ice cream melts in my hand. (a prepositional phrase starting with the preposition "in")
The soft ice cream melts quickly in my hand. (an adverb modifying melts, explaining "how")
When I sit outside, the soft ice cream melts quickly in my hand. (a subordinate clause)
Get that much down, with those fancy terms, and folk will consider you a grammatical genius.
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