Answer:
The correct answer is noun.
Step-by-step explanation:
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What part of speech is the word in italics?
Brian walked slowly home, as the day was so warm and pleasant.
- Noun
- Verb
- Adverb
- Adjective
A speech has 8 parts. Let's see all of them with the explanation:
The Eight Parts of Speech
- Noun: It is a word that names or designates people, animals, things, places, feelings or ideas referring to their common characteristics of the species or class without taking into account their distinctive features or particularizing their meaning.
- Pronoun: They point to or represent people or objects, or refer to facts already known to the speaker and listener.
- Verb: Are used to express actions, states, attitudes, conditions, events of nature or existence.
- Adjective: Qualifies the noun, and provides additional information or complements its meaning
- Adverb: They inform us how or in what way an action is carried out
- Preposition: An invariable word that is used to join or relate words so that one becomes a complement to the other.
- Conjuction: It is used to join two words or elements of the same grammatical hierarchy.
- Interjection: It is made up of a word or short expressions, enclosed in exclamation marks and their intonation is independent in oral speech and they are enclosed in commas in writing.