Identify the Part of Speech of the underlined word: There are no books at home.

Answer: In the sentence "There are no books at home," the word "no" is functioning as a determiner that modifies the noun "books" to show absence (zero quantity).

• What it does: It describes the amount (none) of the noun "books."

• Grammatical label: Determiner or quantifier (often taught as a type of adjective in school grammar).

• Note: In other contexts, "no" can have different functions (for example, as an interjection in "No!"), but here it clearly modifies a noun.