A good writer knows about the parts of speech. There are the basic nouns, which are either a person, a place, or a thing of some sort. An example of a noun is a partridge, or a zebra. Another part of speech is a verb. Verbs are action words, such as sprinting, jumping, eating, or flying. There are also adverbs, they're the words that describe verbs. An example of such is happily, passively, joyfully, or aggressively. There are adjectives: words that describe nouns, like shiny, or bright.