It can be any of the three: it is the present participle of the verb "to illustrate."
Verb - My favorite artist will be illustrating the new book.
Noun - Illustrating Children's Books was his favorite job.
Adjective - The speaker provided many illustrating examples of management failure.
Eager is an adjective, the noun is eagerness, there is no verb.
This versatile word can be a noun or verb , and veiled as an adjective.
"Depressed" is a predicate adjective. It follows the linking verb "seems".
It is a noun (an area). The adjective is regional.
Noun
No, the word 'illustrate' is a verb: illustrate, illustrates, illustrating, illustrated.The noun forms of the verb to illustrate are illustrator, illustration, and the gerund, illustrating.
No, it is a verb or a noun (to go around, to surround; a round shape). The adjective form is circular.
Brief can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
The word 'census' is a noun. It is not a verb or an adjective.
Eager is an adjective, the noun is eagerness, there is no verb.
Reaction is a noun, reactive is an adjective, but react itself is a verb.
Distribute = verb Distribution = noun Distributable = adjective
This versatile word can be a noun or verb , and veiled as an adjective.
noun, it is a thing. a verb is what you do and an adjective is discriptive words
The word plunge can be a noun or a verb. It is not an adjective or adverb.
Examples of words that function as a noun, a verb, or an adjective are:averagebettercounterexpressglassgreenhomelikepalepresentshorttime
Adjective verb ; Adverb ;; noun ; Adjective. Adverb describes the action of a verb . 'Very fast' ; 'very' is the adverb to the verb 'fast' Adjective describes a noun . 'red coat' ; 'red' is the adjective to the noun 'coat'.