One email message contained a virus but it was very quickly deleted.
* One: Determiner (modifies "email message")
* email: Noun (type of message)
* message: Noun (object)
* contained: Verb (past tense)
* a: Determiner (modifies "virus")
* virus: Noun (object of "contained")
* but: Conjunction (connects two independent clauses)
* it: Pronoun (subject of "was deleted")
* was: Verb (part of the past tense verb "was deleted")
* very: Adverb (modifies "quickly")
* quickly: Adverb (modifies "deleted")
* deleted: Verb (past participle, part of the past tense verb "was deleted")
Let's break it down further:
* One email message contained a virus: This is an independent clause. It has a subject ("One email message") and a verb ("contained").
* but it was very quickly deleted: This is also an independent clause, connected to the first clause by the conjunction "but." It has a subject ("it") and a verb ("was deleted").
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