Question

What part of speech does the word in capital letters play in this sentence? "The taunts are rude and need to stop!" CRIED Mrs. Norris.

Answer 1

The word in the capital letters is a verb. This is the verb To Cry used in past participle form. It plays the function of a predicate.

Answer 2

If the word in capital letters is CRIED, then the correct answer is verb.

Verbs are words that show us some kind of action or state that the subject is performing. In this case, the subject is Mrs. Norris, and the action that she is performing is crying. The verb is used in past simple tense, to denote that it is something that happened before this moment.