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taboo, a noun, adj, or verb

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bluestblue
 
Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 09:08 am
The culinary camps have become so balkanized that some factions consider interdietary dating taboo.

What part of speech of taboo in the above sentence?

Thanks in advance!
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 09:13 am
Adjective.

Dating here is not a verb, but a gerund (acting as a noun.) So I think it's an adjective describing the noun.
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bluestblue
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 10:00 am
Thank you, McTag, very very much! Smile


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