Discussion
Which part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence ?
People are pushing past you.
Answer: A
In 'People are pushing past you', past is a preposition.
A preposition links a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence and shows a relation such as place or direction. Here 'past' is followed by its object, the pronoun 'you', and shows the direction of the pushing: beyond you. 'Past you' is a prepositional phrase.
'Past' can be an adverb when it has no object ('People pushed past'), an adjective before a noun ('past events'), and a noun ('in the past'), but it is never a verb; the verb form is 'passed'. With the object 'you' it is a preposition here.
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