What does part of speech mean?
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part of speech
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Princeton's WordNet
part of speech, form class, word classnoun
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
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part of speechnoun
A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
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Part of speech
In traditional grammar, a part of speech or Part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS), is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar syntactic behavior—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes similar morphology in that they undergo inflection for similar properties. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, or determiner. Other Indo-European languages also have essentially all these word classes; one exception to this generalization is that most Slavic languages as well as Latin and Sanskrit do not have articles. Beyond the Indo-European family, such other European languages as Hungarian and Finnish, both of which belong to the Uralic family, completely lack prepositions or have only very few of them; rather, they have postpositions. Other terms than part of speech—particularly in modern linguistic classifications, which often make more precise distinctions than the traditional scheme does—include word class, lexical class, and lexical category. Some authors restrict the term lexical category to refer only to a particular type of syntactic category; for them the term excludes those parts of speech that are considered to be functional, such as pronouns. The term form class is also used, although this has various conflicting definitions. Word classes may be classified as open or closed: open classes (like nouns, verbs and adjectives) acquire new members constantly, while closed classes (such as pronouns and conjunctions) acquire new members infrequently, if at all.
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part of speech
A part of speech is a categorization of words in a language based primarily on their grammatical functions. Some common parts of speech in English include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Each part of speech has specific rules which govern its usage in sentence structure and syntax.
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Part of speech
In grammar, a part of speech is a linguistic category of words, which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb, among others. There are open word classes, which constantly acquire new members, and closed word classes, which acquire new members infrequently if at all. Almost all languages have the lexical categories noun and verb, but beyond these there are significant variations in different languages. For example, Japanese has as many as three classes of adjectives where English has one; Chinese, Korean and Japanese have nominal classifiers whereas European languages do not; many languages do not have a distinction between adjectives and adverbs, adjectives and verbs or adjectives and nouns, etc. This variation in the number of categories and their identifying properties entails that analysis be done for each individual language. Nevertheless the labels for each category are assigned on the basis of universal criteria.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of part of speech in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of part of speech in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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- جزء من الكلامArabic
- һүҙ төркөмөBashkir
- slovní druhCzech
- ordklasseDanish
- WortartGerman
- parolpartoEsperanto
- parte del discurso, parte de oración, categoría gramatical, parte del habla, parte de la oraciónSpanish
- sanaluokkaFinnish
- classe lexicale, partie du discoursFrench
- חלק דיבורHebrew
- խոսքի մասArmenian
- bagian dari pidatoIndonesian
- orðflokkurIcelandic
- parte del discorsoItalian
- 品詞Japanese
- 품사Korean
- pars ōrātiōnisLatin
- zinsdeel, woordsoortDutch
- ordklasseNorwegian
- część mowyPolish
- classe gramaticalPortuguese
- parte de vorbireRomanian
- часть речиRussian
- besedna vrstaSlovene
- pjesë e ligjëratësAlbanian
- ordklassSwedish
- భాషాభాగముTelugu
- ווערטערקלאַסYiddish
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