Is this an adjective, adverb, etc.?

Question

So for this sentence: "When your sentence is a excited phrase," phrase would be what?
I know that it should be worded differently because excited gives phrase an action, but I have to explain what phrase is in order to correct that mistake.

The sentence is continued on. That part I just typed out was an opening to it, a proposition.

Answer 1

"When your sentence is an excited phrase" is an adverbial phrase which would be followed by a form of the verb that is modified.
The phase describes conditions imposed on the verb to follow; it sets the condition of time.
It may not be a form of "to be" like:
When your sentence is an excited phrase, you should punctuate it with an exclamation point.
or to see it easier:
You should punctuate it with an exclamation point, when your sentence is an excited phrase.
"When " is almost always adverbial, unless you are talking about the noun time (or some version of time).

Answer 2

In that part of the sentence, "phrase" is a noun; "excited" does not give phrase action, but is a descriptive word. To read the sentence and try to figure out the rest of the sentence I would say that "exclamation" would be the answer.

Answer 3

In your sentence, "phrase" is a noun. I think you're trying to say, "When your sentence shows excitement," or "When your sentence conveys excitement." These all use nouns as the last word.

Answer 4

First of all, that is not a complete sentence. Phrase is a noun. Use "an" instead of "a."

Answer 5

it sounds like an adjective to me because phrase is a noun, not a verb

Answer 6

The problem is that you don't have the subject and verb agreeing, and that it is a fragmented sentence. My beest advice would be to reword it as such: "When your sentence is an excited phrase,..." and then finish your idea after the comma.

Answer 7

noun because it's the thing you're talking about

Answer 8

noun. But I'm not sure that's what you are looking for...

Answer 9

go to a dicthionary