The first amendment gives people the freedom of speech. Protest is freedom of speech.
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
"That" is a pronoun, while "I" is a pronoun and "am" is a verb.
That exact phrase comes from Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address", but the idea that governments can only be legitimate when the people themselves control them is much older. ______________________________________________________________________ Well, somebody's got a way with words! Anyways, the answer is, yes, ABRAHAM Lincoln. Lu, meh!
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.
That is the phrase from MLK in his speech.
A prepositional phrase.
"Of the field" is a prepositional phrase. The word "of" is a preposition, and "the field" is the object of the preposition.
A phrase is a group of words that functions as a unit in a sentence but does not contain a subject and a verb. It can act as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence.