Discussion
Identify Parts of Speech of the underlined words in the sentence given below :
'But social media can change our lives for the better.'
Answer: D
The underlined words are a noun (lives) and an adjective (better), as the Board's key has it.
Lives follows the possessive our, so it is the plural of the noun life, not the verb lives (as in 'she lives here'). That rules out the two options beginning with verb.
Better follows the in the phrase for the better. Traditional school grammar treats this as an adjective used as a noun, like the rich or the beautiful, and classes it as an adjective; dictionaries list the idiom under the noun. Either way it is not an adverb: it does not modify the verb change but completes the preposition for. So 'noun, adjective' is the only option that fits.
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