Discussion
Identify parts of speech of the underlined words in the given sentence :
'Doctors warn against any form of gene therapy which seeks to deactivate the sweet gene'.
Answer: A
The underlined words are a preposition and an adjective.
Against is a preposition: it links the verb warn to the noun phrase any form of gene therapy and shows the relation between them. Sweet is an adjective: it describes the noun gene, telling us which gene.
Against is not an adverb or conjunction here, because it is followed by a noun phrase as its object; and sweet is not a noun, because it modifies gene rather than naming a thing.
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