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For questions relating to identifying the parts of speech, which include: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, determiners, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

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Is 'only' an adjective and 'off' a preposition in the example sentence?

You are half right (that would be the second half). Only is used as an adverb in your sentence. Notice that, if it were used as an adjective to modify the word yard, the indefinite article would be i …
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