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If so, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions (blue / quickly / and / in ) can be neither subject nor predicate on their own, though they can be in either subject or predicate.

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The blue car | drove quickly past the green and yellow mailbox. -- above mentioned parts of speech in bold. Not in bold -- 2 nouns (car, mailbox) and 1 verb (drove).

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