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/pɑrt əv spitʃ/ Listen

Part of speech

noun

One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context. Synonyms: form class, word class.

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... to both. This meaning is clearly indicated by putting "not only" before "Paris:" thus, "He visited not only Paris, but Berlin also." As a rule the word after the first correlative should be the same part of speech as the word after ...

— Practical Exercises in English • Huber Gray Buehler

... of Personal Rank, the Hierarchical Ascension of Individuality or Personality in Society, abstracted from the particular Individuals, and rendered purely official, becomes nominally a new Part of Speech, and is the whole, substantially, of what we ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... two sentences, Edwin: 'I fell down,' and 'I fell down stairs.' Down is not the same Part of Speech in the two sentences. What ...

— The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various

... the condition of this part of speech: yonder is a man, ant sei dor eni, and if he live there, or is there standing, ant catz, etc., which catz is used only for persons. Yonder is water, ant, or agut bat man, yonder is grass, ant dsa hab, and also may be said, bat eni, dosa eni, but bat hab, ...

— Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language - Shea's Library Of American Linguistics. Volume III. • Buckingham Smith

Words linked to "Part of speech" : major form class, form class, word class, grammatical category, syntactic category