In the term, 'publishing a newspaper', the word publishing is acting as a verb.
They were publishing a newspaper. (main verb)
Publishing a newspaper was he dream. (verb component of noun clause as the subject of sentence)
They began their company by publishing a newspaper. (verb component of noun clause as object of the preposition 'by')
Publishing as a gerund: Publishing is the mainstay of their business.
Publishing as an adjective: He's planning to enter the publishing business.
Queen Elizabeth II issued a writ against The Sun newspaper in 1992 for publishing a leaked version of her Christmas speech.
Newspaper is a noun.
The speech of Robespierre was printed in the newspaper called Le Vieux Cordelier.
It's a preposition. The words "to the playground" make up a prepositional phrase.
They could be used as several different parts of speech. Typically the entire phrase acts as one part of speech... a noun phrase, a verb phrase, etc.
Prepositional phrase
A phrase is never a part of speech, only a word.
That I am is a phrase, the individual words in the phrase are parts of speech. That -- demonstrative, determiner I -- pronoun am -- be verb
The phrase "in addition" is a prepositional phrase in which "in" is the preposition and "addition" is its object. This phrase, as a phrase, is not a part of speech, although it may function as one, probably an adjective or adverb.
yes
That is the phrase from MLK in his speech.
A prepositional phrase.