Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the sentence (the extracted item does not mark which word is underlined): 'Adders are the only poisonous snakes found across Britain.'
- (a)Noun
- (b)Adjective
- (c)Adverb
- (d)Determiner
Correct — A, Noun. The extracted item does not mark the underlined word, but the keyed answer and the four choices point to a noun: the naming words here are 'Adders' (the subject), 'snakes' and 'Britain'. Whichever was underlined, its part of speech is a noun — a word that names a person, place, animal or thing.
- (b)Adjective — The describing words are 'poisonous' and 'only'; if either were the target the answer would be adjective, but the key marks a naming word, not a describing one.
- (c)Adverb — There is no clear adverb modifying the verb 'are'/'found' for manner, time or place, so 'Adverb' does not fit any word in the sentence.
- (d)Determiner — 'the' is the determiner here; the keyed answer is a noun, not the article, so 'Determiner' is wrong.
A noun names a person, place, animal, thing or idea (here 'adders', 'snakes', 'Britain'); part-of-speech questions turn on the word's function in the sentence, not its position.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
What part of speech is the underlined word: 'The lion is the king of the jungle'? (underlined: lion)
- (a)Noun
- (b)Verb
- (c)Adjective
- (d)Adverb
Answer(a) Noun — 'lion' names an animal and is the subject of the sentence.
- practice — not a real PYQ
What part of speech is the underlined word: 'Peacocks are found mainly in India'? (underlined: Peacocks)
- (a)Adverb
- (b)Noun
- (c)Preposition
- (d)Adjective
Answer(b) Noun — 'Peacocks' names a bird and is the subject.