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What part of speech is the word "not"? It's a no brainer that "not" is always referred to as an adverb. Look in any dictionary and that becomes clear. However, it cannot be denied that when identifying a part of speech we must look at how it functions in the sentence in which it is being used. In the following sentence, it simply does not work as an adverb and works only as an adjective. She should have used...

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