How to Identify A(n):

Adverb - Ask yourself: "Does this answer 'When,' 'Where,' 'How,' or 'To what extent?'?"

Predicate Nominative - Ask yourself: "Is it a noun?" "Does it rename the subject?" "Is the verb a linking verb?"

Predicate Adjective - Ask yourself: "Does it modify the subject, yet is it in the predicate?" "Is the verb a linking verb?"

Direct Object - Ask yourself: "Does this answer: 'verb + whom? or what?'"

Indirect Object - Ask yourself: "Does this answer: 'for whom?' or 'to whom?'?"

Gerund - Ask yourself: "Does it look like a verb even though it is part of the subject?" or "Does it look like a verb even though it modifies something else?"

Preposition - Ask yourself: "Does it show a relationship with 'the box'?" (Examples: around the box, under the box, to the box)

Conjunction - Just remember this: FAN BOYS (F= for, A= and, N= nor, B= but, O= or, Y= yet, S= so)