What part of speech does "the" belong to? Is it a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection?
1 Answer
Jul 3, 2016
It is the definite article.
Explanation:
English has one definite article: "the".
It is not a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection.
It occurs as part of compound nouns, e.g. "the black cat" is a compound noun.
