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-Part of speech- What part of speech is the word 'scourge' used in sentence below: Oedipus encounters the scourge of the people of Thebes. Answer choices: verb noun adjective adverb preposition
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What part of speech is the word 'scourge' used in sentence below:

Oedipus encounters the scourge of the people of Thebes.

Answer choices:
verb
noun
adjective
adverb
preposition

User Oliver Atkinson
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I’m pretty sure it’s an adjective-

scourge isn’t an action so not a verb, not an object so not a noun, not describing a verb so not an adverb, and preposition is “where can a mouse go?” Aka above, in, on, etc. so it’s not that either.
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