Participles, infinitives, and gerunds ~Apex :D
What was the name of his college? (The name of his college was what?)What - interrogative pronoun, functioning as a predicate nominative;was - linking verb;the - article;name - noun, functioning as subject of the sentence;of - preposition;his - pronoun (possessive adjective), describes the noun 'college';college - noun, object of the preposition 'of'.
adjective It describes the reproductive organ
In the sentence, "Which is his sister?", "which" is an interrogative pronoun.
Why is the beginning of a interrogative sentence.
Noun--however, many words have several possible parts of speech; please submit the Whole Sentence when asking for part of speech--cannot be sure without seeing how it is used in the sentence, as that's what determines the part of speech.
I forget the overall term, but I know some subcategories of the term. Participles, or verbs functioning as adjectives. Gerunds, or verbs functioning as nouns. Infinitives, which are to+ the most basic form of a verb. These can be nouns and maybe other parts of speech.
In the given sentence, there is called an expletive
In the sentence "tomorrow is a mystery," 'tomorrow' is a noun functioning as the subject of the sentence.
Past is being used as a noun in that sentence.
"Advocating" is a present participle of the verb "advocate," functioning as a verb in a sentence.
In the sentence "The vase was broken," "broken" is functioning as an adjective. It describes the state of the vase.
Redundancy in speech is called tautology. Tautology involves using different words that essentially mean the same thing in a sentence, adding no extra meaning or understanding.
The phrase "I was then too young" is a complete sentence comprised of a subject ("I") and a verb ("was"), therefore it is a declarative sentence. It does not represent a single part of speech as it contains multiple elements functioning together.
"play" is a verb in this sentence, functioning as the main action word.
This sentence is a verb phrase, with the verb "barricaded" functioning as the main verb in the sentence.
The individual word "sentence" is a common noun. However, a sentence itself is comprised of many different parts of speech.
In this sentence, "out" is functioning as a preposition, indicating the position of Marla in relation to college.