Homework Help: English

Posted by Nicole on Monday, September 3, 2007 at 10:35am.

What part of speech is "passion for excellence" in the following sentence? I think a noun.

My granddaughter has a strong passion for excellence.

English - Ms. Sue, Monday, September 3, 2007 at 10:43am
Passion is a noun and is used as the direct object of the verb has. For excellence is a prepositional phrase modifying passion.

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