Instructions

Read the passage carefully and answer the question given below.
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India. He was a great man with a high level of intelligence. He was born and raised in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu. He studied physics at the St. Joseph's college, Tiruchchirappalli, and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chennai. He was a good student throughout his school years.
Popularly known as the Missile Man of India, Dr. Kalam had led India from one achievement to another in space technology. He played very important role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, after the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
He had been awarded with the Padma Bhushan in 1981 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1990. The United Nations recognised Dr. Kalam's 79th birthday as World Students' Day.

Question 24

"Dr. Kalam had led India from one achievement to another in space technology."

Identify the part of speech for 'technology' from the given sentence.

Solution

"Technology" is the name of a field of knowledge, so it is a noun. In the sentence it is the object of the preposition "in", with "space" describing what kind of technology it is. It does not show an action (verb), describe a noun (adjective) or replace a noun (pronoun).

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