parts of speech

Cultural  

1. Classifications of words according to their relations to each other and to the things they represent. Different parts of speech name actions, name the performers of actions, describe the performers or actions, and so on. The common parts of speech are adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs.

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Example Sentences

Sometimes old-fashioned in her syntax, using phrases like “set about” and “I suppose,” Schulz likes to turn parts of speech over and examine them, like stones.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022

Pronouns are one of the eight main parts of speech, the others being nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

And it’s excellent for kids who are practicing parts of speech.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2020

NLP technology uses machine-learning algorithms that tag parts of speech and the relationships between words to analyze the meaning in text and audio.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2019

We must imagine the morphogenesis of deep structures, built into our minds, for coding out, like proteins, the parts of speech.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas