Question

What part of speech is the word in italics? Shelly’s *beautiful dance* thoroughly captivated the audience.

Answer 1

Answer:

Simply put.... It's a noun.

Explanation:

When you say the phrase beautiful dance, beautiful is an adjective and dance is a noun. This makes it confusing. However, beautiful describes dance, shelly's also describes dance. Dance is also what is doing the action in the sentence. So I will say that dance is what we are looking at right now.