Choose which part of speech the underlined part belongs to:
This bill was passed yesterday.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Adverb

Key Points

As we have to identify the part of the speech of the word, we need to know the significance of the parts of the speech.
Parts of speech:
- A category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions.
- In English, the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

Let's understand the definitions of parts of speech given in the options:

Parts of speech	Function	Example
Adjective	It is used to qualify the noun or pronoun in the sentence.	Your daughter has a good nature. The child liked the dark chocolate.
Noun	It is the name of a person, place, thing, feeling, etc.	Maya is working in the kitchen.
Verb	It is the name of action words in the sentence.	Surak talked to me. He is very sincere.
Adverb	It is used to qualify the verb, adjective, or another adverb in the sentence.	He came noisily. Open the door slowly.

Thus the correct answer is Adverb.
Important Points