Parts of Speech

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How many parts of speech are there in English?

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8

Front

a word used to identify people, places, things, or ideas

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noun

Front

a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun, to modify or describe it

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adjective

Front

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

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verb

Front

A word that modifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb.

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adverb

Front

a word that substitutes for a noun or a noun phrase

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pronoun

Front

A word used to connect clauses, sentences, phrases, or words

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conjunction

Front

A word expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.

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preposition

Front

A word that expresses emotion

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interjection

Front

What is a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its grammatical function?

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part of speech