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In the following sentence identify the part of speech f the italicized word.Catching fish is one of the oldest pastimes.
A) Preposition
B) Adverb
C) Conjuction
D)Verb

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Answer 1
Answer: Since you didn't italicize any word, I will just write every part of speech here.
Catching is a gerund/noun, fish is a noun, is is a verb, one is a number, of is a preposition, the is a determiner, oldest is an adjective, pastimes is noun. 

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The right order for the sentence is like this:

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I would say b
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