Homework Help: grammar

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 2:55pm.

In the sentence "He is afraid of the night", what part of speech is night??

He = subj
is = verb
afraid = pred adjective
of = preposition
the = article
night = ___________ (What completes a prepositional phrase?)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm

Let me know what you decide, and I'll be happy to give you feedback.

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My cent-and-a-half for this question. HE is a pronoun (part of speech) which functions in this sentence as a subject.

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