"Was cleaning" together is the first or third person singular past progressive tense of the verb "clean". If the two words are considered separately, both "was" and "cleaning" are verbs: "Was" is the first or third person singular past of the verb "be" and "cleaning" is the present participle form of the verb "clean".
adverb
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was cleaning is a past continuous verb phrase.
noun.What part of speech is the word polish in this sentence.This is a better way of asking the question, words don't don't play as parts of speech.
part of speech
The part of speech for this particular word is a noun.
adverb
what part of speech is work
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"was cleaning" is a verb phrase, so it would not be part of the subject. It would be part of the predicate.
Adjective
The word speech is a noun.
Yes, conjunction is a part of speech.
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