Find the part of speech of the underlined word. Be sure to look at it in the context of this sentence as the word itself
may have many answers for what part of speech it could be.
The recipe for chewing gum received its first patent in 1869.
pronoun
adverb
conjunction
prepositon
Answer: The part of the speech in the underlined word is a preposition.
Explanation: It is a preposition because first is a preposition, assuming you underlined the word first. First comes before. An example of this would be under.
