Question

"When"which type of part of speech

Answer 1

Answer:

The word “when” is considered a subordinating conjunction. Conjunctions are words that connect two ideas (words like “and”). Subordinating conjuctions connect a dependent clause to an independent clause. Clauses are like sentences: they have a subject and a verb. An independent clause can stand alone, but a dependent clause needs to connect to another clause. In your sentence, “he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him” is an independent clause and “when he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of night” is the dependent clause. The word “when” is the conjunction that is joining or connecting the two clauses.