Question

The children were playing merrily ​

Answer 1

Answer:

the children were playing merrily

Answer 2

CORRECT QUESTION:

The children were playing merrily.

Say what part of speech the underlined word is.

ANSWER:

We are provided with a sentence in which the word merrily is underlined. We are asked what part of speech is the word and the answer will be an adverb.

• Adverbs are words that help to modify the verb.
• Modifying the verb means restricting the meaning of the verb to a limit.
• So in this sentence, the adverb tries to restrict the meaning of the verb ' playing.'
• There are various ways in which the verb playing can be understood.
• By using the adverb after the verb it restricts the meaning of the verb to playing merrily.
• One of the easy ways of identifying adverbs is that in most cases they end with the letters ly.
• Therefore, the correct answer regarding the part of speech will be an adverb.

PROJECT CODE: #SPJ2

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