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Differentiate between a noun and an adjective: is the underlined word in the following sentence a noun or an adjective?

My grandmother spoke to everyone with the easy familiarity of an old friend.


noun


adjective

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Noun.

"Familiarity" is an abstract noun here — the head of the noun phrase "the easy familiarity of an old friend." ("Easy" and the prepositional phrase "of an old friend" both modify that noun.)