Discussion
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the following sentence.
'.......... and if this kept up for some time,..........'
Answer: D
The underlined word 'for' is a Preposition.
In 'if this kept up for some time', for is followed by the noun phrase 'some time' and links it to the verb, expressing duration. A word that governs a noun or pronoun and shows its relation to the rest of the sentence is a preposition.
For can be a conjunction meaning 'because' when it joins two clauses ('He stayed, for it was raining'), but here it introduces only a noun phrase. It is not an adverb, since it has an object, and not a pronoun, since it does not stand for a noun.
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