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sneela

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Please can someone check the part of speech of the sentence given below...
"He has hardly any chance of succeeding"
He = pn; has = verb; hardly =adv' any = adj or det (doubt); chance = noun; of = prep; succeeding = adj or noun (doubt)

Have highlighted the ones which I am not sure about. Would appreciate if someone can describe the rules to decide the correct ones.

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Please can someone check the parts of speech of the sentence given below.

"He has hardly any chance of succeeding."
He = pn; has = verb; hardly =adv' any = adj or det (doubt); chance = noun; of = prep; succeeding = adj or noun (doubt)

I have highlighted the ones which I am not sure about. I would appreciate it if someone [strike]can[/strike] ​could [STRIKE]describe[/STRIKE] explain the rules to help me decide on the correct ones.

Thanks and regards.
sneela

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Welcome to the forum. :hi:

Please note my corrections above. It's important to use full sentences and correct punctuation on the forum. I'm going to leave it to a parsing expert to answer your question.
 

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Hello, Sneela:

In my opinion, you have done a great job of parsing. Congratulations!

1. If you follow the traditional 8 parts of speech, then "any" would, indeed, be an adjective. Newer textbooks, however, prefer the term "determiner."

2. As you already know, a preposition (like "of") is followed by a noun or pronoun.

a. "of succeeding" = preposition + gerund.

i. You probably remember your teacher telling you that a gerund is an -ing word that is used as a noun. For example: "Succeeding in life often depends on good luck." In that sentence "succeeding" is a gerund and is part of the complete subject "Succeeding in life."
 
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