Identify the part of speech of each italicized word in the following sentence: Jim and Tiffany, who are my favorite cousins, just saw the cutest dog running through their back yard and hiding behind the car.

Jim (noun - a person); favorite (adjective - describes cousins); just (adverb - describes saw); cutest (adjective - describes dog); running (verb - shows action); their (adjective - describes yard); and (conjunction - connects running and hiding); behind (preposition - shows spatial relationship between dog and car); the (article, a type of adjective that introduces a noun, car)

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The parts of speech for the words in the sentence are:

Jim: noun. A proper noun

who: pronoun. A relative pronoun, refering to the subject Jim and Tiffany.

favorite: adjective. A word to describe cousins in this sentence.

just - adverb. Adverb of time - short time before now.

cutest - adjective - to describe dog.

running - verb - word that expresses action or state.

their - adjective. Possessive adjective (possessive dederminer)

behind - preposition (of place), showing the position of the dog.

the - article - definite article, refering to a car that is already known.