Choose which part of speech the underlined part belongs to:

She gave me a harmonium.

The correct answer is Verb

Key Points

• As we have to identify the part of the speech of the word, we need to know the significance of the parts of the 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 the options:
   

  Parts of speech	Function	Example
  Noun	It is the name of a person, place, animal, feeling, etc.	Ram is a good boy. Meena is studying
  Pronoun	To replace a noun to avoid repetition.	Shalini is Intelligent. She can stand first.
  Verb	It is the word that expresses the action word in the sentence.	Let's work hard. It is very competitive.
  Adjective	It is used to qualify the noun or the pronoun in the sentence.	Khushbu is an intelligent girl. She is a nice girl.

Thus the correct answer is Option 2

Additional Information

• 'Gave' is the main verb and used in the simple past form here.