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Help Please!

Read the sentence.

The squirrel reached "for" the bird feeder, "for" he saw it was filled with an abundance of sunflower seeds.

The word "for" in the sentence is used as both

1. a gerund and an adverb

2. a noun and an adjective

3. a preposition and a conjunction

4. a verb and a demonstrative article

Help Please! Read the sentence. The squirrel reached "for" the bird feeder-example-1
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“For” can be used as a preposition and a conjunction so the answer is number 3.
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The answer would be 3, a preposition or a conjunction. Hope this helped.

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