Identify the part of speech the underlined word belongs to.

He is slow but he is steady.

The correct answer is Conjunction

Key Points

• A conjunction is a word that is used to join two words, phrases or sentences.
• Example: My daughter and I take tea.
• The underlined word in the sentence joins two sentences.
• As we have to identify which part of speech the word belongs to, we need to know the significance of parts of speech.
  Parts of speech:
  A category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions.
  In English, the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

Let's understand the definitions of parts of speech given in options with examples:

• The word but joins two sentences to make them a single sentence. So it is classified as conjunction.