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Identify the part of speech

Can anyone identify what part of speech we is in the following sentence? To whom should we give this message? The choices are subject, verb, direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, object of a preposition or appositive

Re: Identify the part of speech

Hi Mary

I think you mean function, not part of speech!

To whom should we give this message?

The function of "we" is subject, since it controls the verb. In other words, it is "we" that would be doing the "giving", so it must be the subject.



PaulM