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Determine the part of speech for the italicized word in the sentence below.

In his new lime green Mustang, Brad sped (down) the street into the police radar trap.

adverb

conjunction

intensive

preposition

verb

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WorldlyGlass49

The correct answer is a "preposition". That is because it is a word used to denote a spacial element and convey the meaning of position.

ailud18

The part of speech for the italicized word in the sentence below is a preposition. Option D is correct.

Prepositions are words which start prepositional phrases. A prepositional phrase constists of a group of words which contains a preposition, a noun or pronoun object of the preposition, and any modifiers of the object.

Down is often used with verbs of movement and also in phrasal verbs which usually refers to go towards the ground or to a lower level.

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