Read the sentence below and answer the question.

the beloved family dog loved to chase squirrels.
in the sentence above, the phrase "the beloved family dog" is serving as what part of speech?

an adjective
a noun
a verb
an adverb

The correct answer is B. A noun

Explanation:

A noun is a word that refers to a person, situation, object, etc. Due to this, in sentences, nouns commonly act as the subject or the object. Moreover, nouns can be composed if they include more than two nouns or other elements such as adjectives.

The phrase "the beloved family dog" is a noun because all of these words refer to a specific animal; moreover, this noun is compound as it includes two nouns "family", "dog" and one adjective "beloved". Besides this, you can know this is a noun because it acts as the subject of the sentence or the entity doing the action as the dog is the one that "loved to chase squirrels".

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

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