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

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

Step 6: Create a grammar handbook to describe five parts of speech.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019

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

“He’s a lot better than a fish or gerbil, that’s for sure,” said Kalea George-Phillips, 12, during a break from learning the parts of speech.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2015

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