Discussion
Name the part of speech of the underlined word in the following clause.
which is why I was agreeably surprised.
Answer: C
In 'which is why I was agreeably surprised', which is a pronoun.
Here 'which' stands for the whole idea in the preceding statement and acts as the subject of the verb 'is'. A word that replaces a noun or a clause in this way is a pronoun; 'which' is a relative pronoun, often used to refer back to a whole previous clause, as in 'He apologised, which surprised me.'
It is not an adjective, which would need a noun after it ('which book'). It is not a preposition or an adverb, since it neither links a noun to the sentence nor modifies a verb.
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