Question

Name the part of the speech of the underlined word in the following sentence:
The cat jumped off the chair.
A. Adjective
B. Noun
C. Verb
D. Preposition

Answer 1

Hint:Part of speech is a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. The main parts of speech in English grammar are noun, verb, adjective, etc. etc.

Complete answer:
If we look at the options, in option A an 'adjective' is a word that names the attribute of a noun.
In Option B a 'noun' is simply a naming word and in Option C a 'verb' is an action word.
In option D a preposition may be a word that usually replaces a noun or pronoun and expresses the reference to another word or element within the clause. If we undergo the sentence 'off' is interlinking the relation among the verbs 'jumped' and therefore the noun 'chair'. Hence option D is the correct answer. Though 'Off' doesn't fit into the definitions of option A, B, C these are incorrect options.

Note:
There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part of speech is a group of words that have similar grammatical meaning.