Identify the part of speech for the underlined word.

My heart"fell"when I realized we were moving away.

a.

adverb

c.

verb

b.

noun

d.

adjective

My heart"fell"when I realised we were moving away.

a.

adverb

c.

verb

b.

noun

d.

adjective

In the sentence, the heart is reacting to the situation of moving away. In this sentence, "my heart" is the subject of the sentence or the doer of the action, and the action (or verb) that the heart is performing is "fell" (the past tense of fall". Therefore, the part of the speech for the underlined word "fell" is a verb.