Question

What part of speech is the italicized word in the sentence below?

Four (score) and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Answer 1

@amistre64 @timo86m @campbell_st @hba @electrokid @Hero @jdoe0001 @radar @zepdrix

Answer 2

I would suggest that it is an adjective as it is supplying part of the amount of years, that with four and seven is in effect saying 87 years ago,

Answer 3

what about upon as the italicized word?
the options are:
pronoun
conjunction
adverb
preposition
verb
@radar

Answer 4

What do you think it might be? up on looks like it is describing position like under, over, near, with etc.

Answer 5

I am not very good with grammar, just a hillbilly in the Ozarks. You might do better by posting in the English section, for some reason I am finding this post in the Math. I think it is a preposition, do you?

Answer 6

for real? I did post it in english or at least it says i did

Answer 7

Well you're right, looking at all the posts here on the left side they are English questions although the title of the left hand column says Mathematics weird huh?

Answer 8

conjunction maybe idk tho ;(

Answer 9

I am sticking with prep

Answer 10

You could "Google" it "upon"

Answer 11

What does Google say?

Answer 12

thanks @radar you're right!

Answer 13

You're welcome, gotta run don't feel like I am in the right place! lol

Answer 14

haha!

Answer 15

me 2 i thought you would ask a math q lol :P

Answer 16

what is wrong with this page! haha

Answer 17

OS is wrong