Question

What part of speech is the italicized word in the sentence below?

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought (forth) upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.


1.adjective


2.conjunction


3.adverb


4.preposition


5.verb

Answer 1

4. Preposition

"Forth" is a preposition, that is to say, a function word that usually expresses a relation to another word or phrase in a sentence, they may show direction, location, time, introduce an object, etc.

In this excerpt, the "forth" word is acting as the proposition within the phrasal verbs "Brought forth" which means to cause something to happen or be seen or known.

For further clarification, a phrasal verb consists of a verb and a preposition or an adverb (or both), that when are together express a different meaning than the meaning of words being separated.

Answer 2

The best answer for this question would be:

4.preposition

Prepositions are words that connect the noun, pronoun and phrases in a sentence, the word is usually in front of the noun or pronouns which gives the linked relationship between the words in the sentence.