Question

Identify the choice that best describes the underlined word or clause for questions 5–6.

Although he had never tried it, Jeff knew he would like hot and sour soup.

relative pronoun

subordinating conjunction

personal pronoun

preposition

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT-4 Turbo]

The underlined word or clause isn't provided in your question, but I can analyze the sentence for you.

In the sentence "Although he had never tried it, Jeff knew he would like hot and sour soup," if we refer to different parts, we have the following:

- "Although" is a subordinating conjunction. It introduces the dependent clause "Although he had never tried it," connecting it to the independent clause "Jeff knew he would like hot and sour soup."
- "he" is a personal pronoun that refers to Jeff.
- There is no relative pronoun in this sentence.
- There is no preposition that is central to the structure of the clause; however, "it" after "tried" could be seen as the object of the verb "tried."

Without the underlined word or clause explicitly given, the most suitable answer from the context provided would be "subordinating conjunction" for "Although."