Categorize the words from the passage into nouns, adjectives, and verbs, specifying the color for underlining each category.

Here are the words from the passage categorized as requested:

• Nouns (to be underlined with red):

  • Thomas Alva Edison
  • child
  • questions
  • mother
  • teacher
  • Edison's
  • things
  • answers
  • eggs

• Adjectives (to be underlined with yellow):

  • curious
  • school
  • new
  • some

• Verbs (to be underlined with blue):

  • was (in "was a very curious child")
  • asking (in "was always asking")
  • was (in "who was a school teacher")
  • could not answer
  • would try out
  • find
  • tried
  • hatch
  • sitting