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

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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.

In the sentence "He is afraid of the night", the word "night" is a noun. Specifically, it is a direct object of the preposition "of" in the prepositional phrase "of the night". A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea, and "night" is a thing that can be feared. It is important to note that "night" is not completing the prepositional phrase, but rather it is the object of the preposition.

To determine the part of speech of a word, one can analyze its function in the sentence. In this case, "night" is the object of the preposition "of" and functions as a noun in the sentence.