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

You first have to develop a foundational knowledge by learning how the individual parts of the bike work and how to use them, just as you learn the parts of speech of a language.

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

If this is true, it would mean that the human mind is preset, in some primary sense, to generate more than just the parts of speech.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas