Homework Help Forum: grammar

Posted by Rick on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:57pm.

In the sentence.........His hair is the color of shimmering gold.........what part of speech is gold? The teacher said it was an adjective but I believe it is a noun

• grammar - Ms. Sue, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6:00pm

  I agree -- if that is all of the sentence, then "gold" must be a noun. It's the object of the preposition "of" -- and therefore must be a noun or pronoun. However, if the phrase is something like this -- "of shimmering gold coins," then gold is an adjective. What is the entire sentence?

  
  

• grammar - Rick, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6:25pm

  That was the complete sentence. The odd thing is she said both shimmering and gold were adjectives. Even if she believed gold was an adjective, then shimmering would be an adverb as it modifies the 'adjective' gold. Of course what I had was shimmering (adj) and gold (noun)

  
  

• grammar - Ms. Sue, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6:59pm

  Thanks for the additional information. I guess we all have "brain farts" and bad days. <g>

  
  

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