Identify parts of Speech for sentence below, on numbered word:

Question

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Before the eruption, Mount St.Helena was
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like a giant pressure cooker.

Answer 1

From the way you have posted your question, we cannot tell which words are numbered.

Before (prep.) the (adj.) eruption (n.), Mount St. Helena (n.) was like (v.) a (adj.) giant (adj.) pressure (adj.) cooker (n.).