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What part of speech is "above" in this sentence?

Seen from above, the fields make a pattern of squares and oblongs.

Re: English Grammar

Here it is a noun.

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Preposition.

Re: English Grammar

You are using the word "above" as a noun in your sentence. Specifically, you are using it as a predicate noun with the linking verb is.

You can more easily see it when you manipulate the sentence and say,

"Above" is what part of speech in this sentence?

Here I am using it as a noun as well, but with the switch, it becomes the subject noun.

Above usually is a preposition.

Above
About
Across
After
Against...