In the sentence The philologist delighted in inventing witty neologisms What Part of Sentence is neologisms?

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"The philologist delighted in inventing witty neologisms" DECODED

The is an article, philologist is the simple subject, delighted in this context is an intransitive verb, in inventing witty neologisms is the prepositional phrase with in as the preposition, inventing as a gerund and object of the preposition, and witty as the adjective modifier of neologisms, which is the object of the gerund.
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