Task: Pos Tagging
Input (English): Sentence: We were forbidden to swing on the gates , lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash {{ way }} , but we could stand on them , when they were latched , rest our chins on the top , and stare and stare , committing to memory , quite unintentionally , all the details that lay before our eyes . 
Word: way
Output (English): NOUN