2024 · Q42
Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The story was in all the **dailies**.
EnglishWord Classes
- ANoun
- BAdjective
- CAdverb
- DDeterminer
Explanation
‘Dailies’ here means daily newspapers — ‘the story was in all the dailies’. It names a thing and functions as the object of the preposition ‘in’, which is the role of a noun. It is not describing a noun (adjective), modifying a verb (adverb), or determining one. Hence it is a noun.