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

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

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

My most important high school teacher, Mrs. Jouthas, used a variety of neon-colored chalk to help us differentiate the parts of speech, or follow the rhythms of a Mark Twain paragraph.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2014

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