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Let's solve this word classification task step by step.

We are given a list of words and need to sort them into three categories: nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

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🔤 Step 1: Understand the parts of speech

- Nouns: Names of people, places, things, or ideas (e.g., *dog*, *school*, *happiness*)
- Verbs: Action words or words that describe what someone or something does (e.g., *run*, *sing*, *write*)
- Adjectives: Words that describe nouns (e.g., *happy*, *red*, *old*)

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📋 Given Words:

```
run box red sing chicken write
happy old tree sad mouth fly
new silly laugh car pencil push
fork lost stand ball tall smile
```

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✔ Let’s classify each word:

#### 🔹 Nouns (things)
These are objects, animals, or concepts:
- box – a container
- chicken – an animal
- tree – a plant
- mouth – body part
- car – vehicle
- pencil – writing tool
- fork – utensil
- ball – object
- tree – already listed

Wait — let’s go through all carefully.

✔ Nouns:
- box
- chicken
- tree
- mouth
- car
- pencil
- fork
- ball

(Also note: "lost" is not a noun — it's past tense of "lose", but can be an adjective. We'll see.)

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#### 🔹 Verbs (actions)
Words that show action:
- run – to move quickly
- sing – to make music with voice
- write – to put words on paper
- fly – to move through air
- laugh – to make sounds of amusement
- push – to apply force
- stand – to be upright
- smile – facial expression (action)

✔ Verbs:
- run
- sing
- write
- fly
- laugh
- push
- stand
- smile

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#### 🔹 Adjectives (descriptors)
Words that describe nouns:
- red – color
- happy – emotion
- old – age
- sad – emotion
- new – age/status
- silly – behavior
- tall – height
- lost – state (can describe someone/something missing)

✔ Adjectives:
- red
- happy
- old
- sad
- new
- silly
- tall
- lost

Note: "lost" is an adjective here — as in “a lost dog”.

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✔ Final Classification:

| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives |
|---------------|---------------|----------------|
| box | run | red |
| chicken | sing | happy |
| tree | write | old |
| mouth | fly | sad |
| car | laugh | new |
| pencil | push | silly |
| fork | stand | tall |
| ball | smile | lost |

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✔ Check for completeness:

Total words: 24
Let’s count:
- Nouns: 8 (box, chicken, tree, mouth, car, pencil, fork, ball)
- Verbs: 8 (run, sing, write, fly, laugh, push, stand, smile)
- Adjectives: 8 (red, happy, old, sad, new, silly, tall, lost)

✔ All 24 words accounted for.

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✔ Answer Table:

| nouns | verbs | adjectives |
|---------------|---------------|----------------|
| box | run | red |
| chicken | sing | happy |
| tree | write | old |
| mouth | fly | sad |
| car | laugh | new |
| pencil | push | silly |
| fork | stand | tall |
| ball | smile | lost |

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✔ This completes the task! The words are correctly classified into their respective parts of speech.