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    What part of speech is the word 'named' in the phrase, "like a person named Billy Joe"?

    Question #90967. Asked by wagsthedog. (Jan 09 08 9:31 PM)


    themonarch

    		If the sentence was "a person named Billy Joe", "named" would be considered a verb. Here is a link to more grammar tips.

    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

    Jan 09 08, 10:09 PM
    jimhutch13

    		The word named is a participle (a verb form used as an adjective). "named Billy Joe" is a participle phrase that describes "person". As an eighth grade grammar teacher, I deal with this regularly in our curriculum, and feel that sentence diagramming helps to develop people's knowledge of sentence structure, helping them to write more interesting sentences and essays.

    Jan 10 08, 7:03 AM

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