Question

Determine the part of speech for the quoted word in the sentence below.

Please take a "quart" of these dry oats.



noun

verb

adverb

adjective

preposition

interjection

Answer 1

Any ideas?

Answer 2

Honestly, No. I suck so much at English. Especially figuring out parts of speech.

Answer 3

Well, usually right after 'a' or 'the' it's a noun, but if there's a word describing a quart it would be an adjective before the noun. So is there an adjective describing the word in quotation marks?

Answer 4

no im guessing. it just says take a quart.

Answer 5

So it would be a noun?

Answer 6

Correct.

Answer 7

Okay what about Stephen "girded" his sword upon his armor. how would you know which one it was

Answer 8

What is he doing to his sword?

Answer 9

You know?

Answer 10

Are you still there?

Answer 11

putting it on his armor?

Answer 12

so Girded

Answer 13

Yeah, and what's the action part of the sentence called?

Answer 14

the verb???? Oh my goodness i have no clue.

Answer 15

Yeah, that's right.

Answer 16

Okay. I got it. Thank you.

Answer 17

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