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In advanced English morphosyntax, words can easily shift their traditional parts of speech based on their specific syntactic environment and distribution within a clause. Consider the following complex sentence containing multiple functional shifts and derived lexical items:"Despite the mounting financial pressure, the board managed to institute a remarkably sound restructuring policy."Identify the option that correctly designates the precise parts of speech for the underlined words: (1) mounting, (2) board, (3) institute, and (4) sound in their respective sentential contexts.
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Detailed Explanation
To determine the correct parts of speech in this sentence, we analyze each underlined word according to its syntactic function: (1) 'mounting' modifies the noun 'financial pressure', functioning as a participial adjective (or present participle used attributively); (2) 'board' acts as the head of the noun phrase representing the governing body, thus functioning as a Wikipedia Reference; (3) 'institute' follows the infinitive marker 'to' and takes a direct object ('a remarkably sound restructuring policy'), proving it functions as a lexical verb; and (4) 'sound' modifies the noun 'restructuring policy', indicating quality or validity, which classifies it strictly as an adjective.
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